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terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Admin Goes After Israel Over a Jihadi Polygamist’s Terror Mansion"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"One Sunday evening an Islamic terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in Israel and hit three religious seminary students who had been out hiking. Yehuda Guetta, a 19-year-old, was shot in the head and lay in the hospital for four days while doctors labored to save his life. They failed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBenaya Peretz, another of the 19-year-olds, was seriously wounded. He later \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/307321\"\u003Erecalled\u003C\/a\u003E, “The terrorist stopped in front of me – he was so big. He shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ and just started firing.” Amichai Hala, the third student, only realized that he had been shot in the back of the neck when he tried\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/305436\"\u003E to get up\u003C\/a\u003E. Unlike their friend, both of the young men survived the attack.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe terrorist, Muntasir Shalabi, a wealthy 44-year-old man, drove away in his silver SUV. Israeli soldiers arriving on the scene opened fire, blowing out the rear windshield as he made his getaway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-S0S9phvEzNM\/YPaHtPC8IzI\/AAAAAAAATW4\/aUoKq3jUtKkQdLxHO2d_LTCd2jyo2YDlgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/idf%2Bhouse.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1068\" data-original-width=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-S0S9phvEzNM\/YPaHtPC8IzI\/AAAAAAAATW4\/aUoKq3jUtKkQdLxHO2d_LTCd2jyo2YDlgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/idf%2Bhouse.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe Palestinian Authority’s local Fatah leadership celebrated the attack and urged \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/fatah-defends-terror-attack-calls-on-locals-to-erase-security-camera-evidence\/\"\u003EMuslim settlers in the area\u003C\/a\u003E to \"get rid of the contents that were stored in the cameras of your homes or your businesses today\" to protect the terrorist. Locals also helped by torching the abandoned vehicle used by the terrorist before the Israelis could get to it and recover any evidence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite the best efforts of the terrorists and their accomplices, and Shalabi’s efforts to disguise his appearance, Israelis captured him. And then the Biden administration came after Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsrael arrested the killer and prepared to demolish his terror mansion which is used to break up terrorist cells and deter future attacks. But the Shalabi estate was not just any home: it was the local Hollywood Hills.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETurmus Ayya, a small and wealthy Muslim town, is where you live \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.israellycool.com\/2021\/05\/06\/yehuda-guettas-murderer-came-from-palestinian-equivalent-of-the-hollywood-hills\/\"\u003Ewhen you have money\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMany of the residents have obtained American passports and alternate between working in the United States and using their estates in Turmus Ayya as their summer homes. The Shalabi McMansion was typically grandiose, luxurious, and vulgar, boasting enclosed glass wings and the star and crescent of Islam. And the terrorist living there had United States citizenship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration, which had ignored the murders of American citizens by Islamic terrorists, quickly jumped into action assigning the Shalabi case its highest priority.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile an American woman arrested in a Muslim country for not wearing a hijab or for looking at a man can expect to be ignored by the local embassy, Biden’s State Department dispatched representatives from the embassy to attend the court hearings involving the Shalabi house.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecretary of State Blinken and other top State Department officials berated Israelis over it. The intense pressure from Washington D.C. on the Israeli government and the court temporarily halted the demolition, but then justice was done and the terror mansion was blown up anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe United States embassy, now under new management, complained that, “the home of an entire family should not be demolished for the actions of one individual.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExcept that not just Shalabi, but his wife and son had also been detained after the attack. And Shalabi’s wife expressed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/idf-demolishes-house-of-terrorist-who-murdered-yehuda-guetta-673178\"\u003Esupport\u003C\/a\u003E for her husband’s campaign of brutal violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe exploded terror mansion isn’t even Shalabi’s full-time home: it’s his summer place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the media described Muntasir Shalabi as a father of seven children, it neglected to mention that’s because he has multiple wives. Some of whom live in the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA petition filed on behalf of the terror mansion by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/ngos\/hamoked_center_for_the_defense_of_the_individual\/\"\u003EHamoked\u003C\/a\u003E, an anti-Israel lawfare group\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/ngos\/hamoked_center_for_the_defense_of_the_individual\/\"\u003E funded by\u003C\/a\u003E the EU, the UK, and the UN, claimed that the terrorist “lived most of the time with his other wives and children in homes he owned in the United States”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pro-terrorist lawfare group also insisted that Shalabi, when he wasn’t traveling around the world to his multiple mansions to shack up with his wife-of-the-month, had psychological problems and “repeatedly stated that he was motivated by suicidal thoughts.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat must be why after the terrorist attack, Shalabi fled and tried to disguise his appearance. And why he was taken alive, instead of dying for Allah the way a good terrorist should. But it’s not as easy to blow yourself up when you’ve got mansions and wives around the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s not the behavior of a troubled suicidal man, but of a murderous coward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat was the source of the wealth that allowed the terrorist to own homes and set up families around the world? No one’s talking except to portray Shalabi as a victim of Israeli oppression.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Rashida Tlaib, who has never found a terrorist she won’t defend, tweeted, “Just this week, Israel demolished and leveled the home of a Palestinian family in the beloved village of Turmusaya. For what? To dehumanize.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe “beloved village” is as much of a village as Beverly Hills. And Tlaib knows exactly why the mansion was blown up. It’s because it’s the home of an Islamic terrorist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElisha Guetta, the father of the murdered boy, blasted the Biden administration, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2021\/07\/11\/antisemitic-congresswoman-rashida-tlaib-slammed-on-twitter-for-denouncing-demolition-of-palestinian-terrorists-home-failing-to-mention-his-victim\/\"\u003Esaying \u003C\/a\u003Ethat he was “shocked that the US is condemning the demolition of my son’s murderer and is supporting a terrorist who arrived from the US to carry out a vicious shooting terror attack against innocent Jewish students.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It would be expected that the US, which has often been the victim of terrorism, would stand with terror victims rather than with their murderers,” he wondered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s State Department is picking the terror mansion over the murdered boy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We attach a good deal of priority to this,\" State Department spokesman Ned Price warned that his administration would keep on fighting Israel over this \"as long as this practice continues.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr as long as the Biden administration continues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Punitive demolitions exacerbate tensions at a time when everyone should be focused on principally ensuring calm,\" he complained. Price might want to take that up with the terrorists his administration insists on funding. The Shalabi mansion would still be ugly and standing if the head of its household hadn’t tried to murder a bunch of students waiting at a bus stop.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Israeli reactions to terrorist attacks are always provocative while terrorist attacks never are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Gregory Meeks, the Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and a longtime \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/07\/biden-admin-welcomes-china-and-cubas-condemnation-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ECastro shill\u003C\/a\u003E, joined the pressure campaign reportedly putting in an angry phone call of his own. Despite efforts by Democrats to describe Meeks as pro-Israel, he had tried to halt arms sales to Israel during the recent conflict with Hamas and repeatedly criticised the Jewish State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the media kept portraying Shalabi as a “lone-wolf terrorist”, a Hamas group showed up to pay a solidarity visit to the demolished terror mansion. Photos of the event show a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/idf-arrests-dozens-of-palestinians-after-solidarity-visit-to-village-of-attacker\/\"\u003EHamas flag flying\u003C\/a\u003E from the rubble of the home and a banner of Shalabi next to Hamas regalia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately for them, they announced the visit ahead of time on social media, posting, “The Hamas student faction at Birzeit University invites you to attend a visit to the family of the heroic prisoner Montasir Shalabi.” The Israelis were waiting and took the lot in for questioning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Shalabi terror mansion may be dust and rubble, but the Biden administration will not forget the martyred mansion and intends to fight on so that no more terror mansions are blown up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/02\/bidens-new-asst-sec-state-worked-islamic-terror-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EHady Amr\u003C\/a\u003E, a Biden bundler and anti-Israel activist, who serves as the Democrat \"point man\" on the terrorist conflict against Israel, will take on the issue on his next visit. Amr, who had accused Israel of \"ethnic cleansing\" and responded to the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/02\/bidens-new-asst-sec-state-worked-islamic-terror-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Edeath of a Hamas leader \u003C\/a\u003Eby threatening that \"there will be thousands who will seek to avenge these brutal murders\" is on the case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring his visit, Amr will pressure Israel over terror home demolitions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile inflation rises and crime skyrockets, freedom fighters protest in Cuba and China escalates its crackdown, the Biden administration will go on fighting for a polygamist’s terror mansion.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7364485693319307528\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/biden-admin-goes-after-israel-over.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7364485693319307528"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7364485693319307528"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/biden-admin-goes-after-israel-over.html","title":"Biden Admin Goes After Israel Over a Jihadi Polygamist’s Terror Mansion"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-S0S9phvEzNM\/YPaHtPC8IzI\/AAAAAAAATW4\/aUoKq3jUtKkQdLxHO2d_LTCd2jyo2YDlgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/idf%2Bhouse.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6655305758174091270"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-13T03:16:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-13T03:16:02.124-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden’s War on Jerusalem"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A decade ago, Vice President Biden paid a visit to Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xYFNQB1GqEQ\/YMEZ_5OxmzI\/AAAAAAAATS8\/MrWNUAPA44Mimy-FXrfV6JMJ5--EFjFqwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s489\/biden%2Babbas%2Bframe1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"340\" data-original-width=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xYFNQB1GqEQ\/YMEZ_5OxmzI\/AAAAAAAATS8\/MrWNUAPA44Mimy-FXrfV6JMJ5--EFjFqwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/biden%2Babbas%2Bframe1.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ELike any trip by an emissary of the Obama administration, it wasn’t a goodwill tour, but a combination of a provocation and a shakedown. While Biden was in Israel, two construction projects received partial approval in a multi-stage process from the City of Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden responded by staying up in his hotel room and refusing to come down for an hour.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen he did come down, he hugged Netanyahu and assured him, “Just remember that I am your best f____ friend here.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s definition of friendship is the backstabbing kind because after that he and the entire Obama administration began attacking Israel over a decision made by a local urban agency.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It was not only an insult to Biden, but an insult to the United States,\" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ranted. Then she spent two hours yelling at Netanyahu over the phone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I was often the ‘designated yeller,’” Hillary would \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/muslim-terrorists-and-jewish-anti-semites-against-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Elater brag\u003C\/a\u003E about her relationship with Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There was an affront, it was an insult,\" David Axelrod, Obama's senior adviser falsely claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media launched a disinformation campaign falsely claiming that Prime Minister Netanyahu had deliberately caused a Jerusalem urban planning committee to reach a decision on housing in two areas that until then no one had even been paying much attention to.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of those housing projects was going up in the Shimon HaTzadik (Simon the Righteous) neighborhood named after the last true high priest who had dissuaded Alexander the Great from putting up an idol in the Temple.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Jewish neighborhood had been built in the 19th century. In 1936, Muslim rioters drove out the community while shouting, \"Allahu Akbar\" and \"Ibtach Al Yahood\" or \"Kill the Jews\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was the first modern Muslim attempted genocide of the indigenous Jewish population of Israel. A British truck driver \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2010\/03\/barack-hussein-obama-vs-israel.html\"\u003Erecollected a massacre\u003C\/a\u003E in Tiberias in which \"the bodies of children, apparently set alight with gasoline in a nursery, were still smoldering\" and \"the naked bodies of the women exposed the evidence that the knives had been used in the most ghastly fashion.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1947, the Muslims came for the Jews of the neighborhood again and they fought back with the few weapons they had. Then British forces came along and disarmed the Jews to \"keep the peace\". The Jewish population fled again. Jordan's Arab Legion, under British officers, seized half of Jerusalem, and ethnically cleansed its Jewish population  Some of the homes in Shimon HaTzadik (referred to by Muslims as Sheikh Jarrah after one of Saladin's colonizing invaders) were \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/how-un-stole-jewish-homes-in-occupied.html\"\u003Eused by the\u003C\/a\u003E UNRWA to settle Muslims in violation of international law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe other housing project in Jerusalem in Ramat Shlomo was set to be built \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2010\/03\/barack-hussein-obama-vs-israel.html\"\u003Eon uninhabited land\u003C\/a\u003E that not even the PLO was claiming as its own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was what Biden, Hillary, the Obama administration and the media were howling about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama used fake outrage over Jews living in Jerusalem to engineer the beginning of the Democrat Party’s break with Israel. Biden played a key role in staging an international incident to manufacture a narrative in which Israel was somehow provoking a conflict with Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E11 years later, Biden is so short of ideas that he went right back to the same neighborhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Muslim squatters \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/how-un-stole-jewish-homes-in-occupied.html\"\u003Eplanted by UNRWA\u003C\/a\u003E in Jewish homes have refused to pay rent to their owners or leave. After two generations of court cases, Israel’s Supreme Court was moving to issue a final decision. The Islamic terrorists of the PLO and Hamas used this as a pretext for a murderous campaign against Israel. And everyone from Biden on down has warned Israel against actually following the law and allowing the Jewish owners to reclaim the property.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden funded Iran, backed the terrorists inside Israel, and then warned the Jewish State against “provoking” them by allowing Jews to take part in a parade or allowing courts to follow the law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn May 10th, well before the fighting began, Biden's people \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/05\/biden-demanded-israel-cancel-jerusalem-day-parade-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eordered\u003C\/a\u003E Israel not to evict any of the Muslim squatters and to cancel the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations. Netanyahu tried to appease Biden by rerouting the parade and asked the Supreme Court to postpone a decision.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite these efforts at appeasement, the Islamic violence escalated anyway. But that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration and its media allies from blaming Israel anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s how this game of diplomatic Catch 22 with Israel always works.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Supreme Court, which is independent and doesn’t answer to either Biden or Netanyahu,  refused to halt the eviction case. That hasn’t stopped the Biden administration from continuing to make illegal demands that another nation’s supreme court should refuse to follow the law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Biden is also moving to open a consulate for the ‘Palestinians’ in Jerusalem to counteract the embassy that President Trump moved to Jerusalem. The consulate would violate Israeli sovereignty and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/26\/bidens-plan-for-diplomatic-mission-to-the-palestinians-violates-us-law\/\"\u003Ewould be illegal\u003C\/a\u003E under United States law. Neither bothers Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s also no reason to set up a consulate to the terrorists in Jerusalem except to violate Israeli sovereignty over the city and stake a claim to the Jewish city for Hamas and the PLO.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Palestinian Authority operates out of Ramallah. The Russians and Chinese have their diplomatic missions in Ramallah. That’s not out of sensitivity to Israel, just common sense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden wants to set up a consulate to the PA miles away from the terror state regime that he wants to have close diplomatic relations with. State Department personnel told the media that during the war they thought they were “flying blind” without a consulate. But a consulate in Jerusalem puts them no closer to Abbas and the Palestinian Authority’s government than the embassy they already have in Jerusalem does. If Biden wants a consulate close to Abbas, he could erect one in Ramallah. Otherwise the consulate could operate out of the embassy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecretary of State Blinken claims that Biden wants a consulate in Jerusalem \"to be able to more effectively engage not just the Palestinian Authority, but Palestinians from different walks of life, the NGO community, the business community, and others.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountries don’t have diplomatic relations with NGOs and businesses, but with countries. France doesn’t operate a consulate to Coca Cola or the Sierra Club.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if Biden and Blinken want to “engage” the non-profit NGOs that are funded by the State Department, the European Union, George Soros, and other anti-Israel billionaires to wage a campaign against Israel, they can just open a consulate in D.C., Brussels, or the Open Society Foundations in Berlin. And the Muslim “business community” of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2014\/07\/28\/gazas-millionaires-and-billionaires-how-hamass-leaders-got-rich-quick\/\"\u003E600 Hamas millionaires\u003C\/a\u003E in Gaza, (falsely depicted as an “open air prison” in the media’s disinformation campaign) would be best engaged by opening a consulate in Gaza City right next to the AP’s offices.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no legal or rational reason for Biden to open a “Palestinian” consulate in Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden wants a terrorist consulate in Jerusalem for the same reason that every Democrat White House insisted on keeping the US embassy in Tel Aviv 40 miles from the actual location of the Israeli government in Jerusalem. The State Department didn’t complain it was “flying blind” through multiple wars by refusing to have close access to the Israeli government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was more important to make a point by refusing to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Union and European media made a point of referring to Tel Aviv as shorthand for Israel’s government the way that we would refer to London as shorthand for the British government which was like insisting that the White House is really in Boston.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDeutsche Welle, Germany’s state-owned broadcaster, falsely \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HonestReporting\/posts\/10159598788234954\"\u003Ecaptioned \u003C\/a\u003Ea recent photo of Blinken and Netanyahu meeting in Jerusalem as “Blinken met with Netanyahu in Tel-Aviv”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not just Iran that refers to Israel as “the regime in Tel Aviv”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the denialist mindset behind Biden’s push to open a terror consulate in Jerusalem. Biden’s people, especially his \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/bidens-anti-israel-point-man-behind-plan-fund-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Epro-terrorist point man Hady Amr\u003C\/a\u003E are, as the State Department often accused Israel of doing, “creating facts on the ground” for the PLO and Hamas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd no politician has been more hypocritical and dishonest about Jerusalem than Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1990, Biden \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2010\/03\/full-measure-of-joe-bidens-hypocrisy-on.html\"\u003Eco-sponsored\u003C\/a\u003E Senate Concurrent Resolution 106 which condemned \"ambiguous statements by the Government of the United States concerning the right of Jews to live in all parts of Jerusalem\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo decades later, Biden became a key figure in attacking the right of Jews to \"live in all parts of Jerusalem\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1992, Biden \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2010\/03\/full-measure-of-joe-bidens-hypocrisy-on.html\"\u003Eco-sponsored\u003C\/a\u003E Senate Consecutive Resolution 113 stating that \"Jerusalem must remain an undivided city\" and in 1995 co-sponsored the Jerusalem Embassy Act declaring that \"Jerusalem should remain an undivided city\" and \"be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel\". All the way back in 1984, Biden was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/views-on-israel-of-u-s-presidential-candidates-2020-joe-biden\"\u003Esaying\u003C\/a\u003E, “I happen to support this move”, but “I think it is the wrong fight to make it this time.” And it always went on being the wrong time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen President Trump called Biden’s bluff by moving the embassy to Jerusalem, Biden conceded that “I wouldn’t reverse it. I wouldn’t have done it in the first place.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden promised to open a consulate to the “Palestinians” in Jerusalem and he’s on it. The proposed consulate has no legitimate government function because it’s not in Ramallah.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only purpose of the consulate is to undermine President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter years of enthusiastic speeches at AIPAC, Biden offered a sonorous video in 2020 warning of a \"humanitarian crisis\" in Gaza and telling Israel that it needed to stop Jewish \"settlements\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden threatened Israel that if it didn't keep Jews from living on land claimed by the terrorists, it would \"choke off any hope for peace\" and undermine support from Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring his campaign, Biden promised, “I will reopen the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe’s not reopening it to “engage Palestinians”, but to counter Israel’s claim to Jerusalem. After decades of pretending that he supported recognizing a united Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel, Biden is doing everything he can to undermine Israel’s presence in Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2013, Biden told AIPAC that he was jealous because Obama \"gets to be the one to say ‘This year in Jerusalem'\".  In 2021, he’s promising, “This year in Jerusalem” to the terrorists.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6655305758174091270\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/bidens-war-on-jerusalem.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6655305758174091270"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6655305758174091270"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/bidens-war-on-jerusalem.html","title":"Biden’s War on Jerusalem"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xYFNQB1GqEQ\/YMEZ_5OxmzI\/AAAAAAAATS8\/MrWNUAPA44Mimy-FXrfV6JMJ5--EFjFqwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/biden%2Babbas%2Bframe1.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4851546968081397266"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-07T17:25:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-07T17:25:38.925-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jewish recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Jewish Studies Has an Anti-Semitism Problem"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"When Sultan Doughan signed a hateful letter falsely claiming that Israel and Zionism were based on \"Jewish Supremacy\", a term popularized by Neo-Nazi leader David Duke, that ugly rhetoric wouldn’t have attracted much attention in an antisemitic time... except for one thing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoughan is a Muslim postdoctoral associate at Boston University's Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZLoRXQ9OZt8\/YL6OxnsKfGI\/AAAAAAAATSs\/wG6DalnxyNUvt66qtGm1iASD4lz1dV6sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s627\/image_2021-06-07_142525.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"472\" data-original-width=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZLoRXQ9OZt8\/YL6OxnsKfGI\/AAAAAAAATSs\/wG6DalnxyNUvt66qtGm1iASD4lz1dV6sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-07_142525.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EHer work at a center named after one of the most prominent writers about the Holocaust\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/research\/bujs-research-forum\/\"\u003E includes the\u003C\/a\u003E “case of a German-Palestinian museum guide who lost her job over a controversy that was triggered by her comparing her own family’s traumatic past in the Nakba with Jewish experiences during the Holocaust.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore accurately, the guide compared\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/232771\"\u003E the Jews\u003C\/a\u003E to the Nazis at the Anne Frank House.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn her thesis, Doughan \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu\/etd\/ucb\/text\/Doughan_berkeley_0028E_18515.pdf\"\u003Ecomplains that\u003C\/a\u003E \"Muslims have to submit to the Holocaust\" and that the \"Holocaust remains an exceptional event in German discourse, authorizing immigration policies, citizenship tests and discrimination\" against Muslims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuslims emerge as the \"new Jews\" who are being victimized by the Holocaust, not just in Israel, but in Germany, where they are asked not to spew hate at Jews as a condition of citizenship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoughan appears to suggest that compensation funds for the Holocaust be used for Muslims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe smears a Muslim social worker fighting antisemitism over his shock at a woman declaring, “I’d rather send my daughter to Tel Aviv to blow herself up.\" Doughan accuses him of being a \"driver of imported 'Muslim anti-Semitism'” because his worry over \"the idea of killing Jews was greater than his worry for this concrete girl possibly dying in the course of such an act.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis would be a moral abomination anywhere, but it’s especially horrifying within the context of a Jewish Studies center named after Elie Wiesel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the hateful anti-Israel letter using Neo-Nazi language toward Jews reveals just how deep the rot in Jewish Studies has become. While African-American Studies departments promote positive narratives about black people, Jewish Studies departments do the opposite to Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOften they’re used to attack Jews from the inside while advancing anti-Jewish narratives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPratima Gopalakrishnan, another signatory to the \"Jewish Supremacy\" letter, is a post-doc at the Duke Center for Jewish Studies who rants about Israel on Twitter and ponders  \"how intro classes on the ancient Near East can make intentional connections to Palestine today\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPratima claims \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.fordham.edu\/event\/family-and-other-fictions-in-late-ancient-jewish-society\/\"\u003Eto be\u003C\/a\u003E studying \"ancient Judaism\" using \"theoretical approaches drawn from feminist and queer theory\". That hostile lens is supplemented with a column on the Torah for Jewish Currents, a former \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/03\/puffin-foundations-obsession-communism-revives-war-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ECommunist\u003C\/a\u003E publication that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cms.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/01\/peter-beinart-joins-communist-paper-praised-rape-daniel-greenfield\"\u003Ecelebrated the Muslim rape and murder of Jews\u003C\/a\u003E, and firing off social media blood libels about “Israel’s military aggression against the people of Gaza”, and false claims about the “ethnic cleansing of Palestinians”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELila Corwin Berman, who holds a chair in American Jewish History at Temple University, is also one of the more prominent figures in Jewish studies as \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/bds-and-anti-semitic-terror-center-jewish-history-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Echair of the Academic Council\u003C\/a\u003E of the American Jewish Historical Society. Her signature on the hateful letter is unsurprising considering her opposition to anti-BDS measures, and support for anti-Israel groups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBerman has appeared with Peter Beinart, who has called for the destruction of Israel, and supported him, and promoted material from the JVP pro-terrorist hate group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe also took part in a webinar for the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/03\/puffin-foundations-obsession-communism-revives-war-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eformer Communist\u003C\/a\u003E Jewish Currents anti-Israel site.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond her anti-Israel activism, Berman has labored to rid Jewish Studies of Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn \"Jewish History Beyond the Jewish People\", Berman argues\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jewishphilosophyplace.com\/2019\/01\/14\/frames-jewishness-beyond-actual-jews-response-to-lila-corwin-berman\/\"\u003E that\u003C\/a\u003E \"Jewishness may help us interpret a person, a place, an idea, a text, an object, or a relationship without first having to meet any preexisting condition of being Jewish.\" What then makes Jewish Studies, Jewish?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Is it possible to think of Jewishness as anything other than real Jewish bodies and spaces?\" Berman wheedles. \"When we write Jewish history beyond its foundational claims—the Jewish people or a Jewish space—we must announce that these claims are neither inevitable nor eternal.\" That is a prerequisite to the destruction of the Jewish people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMostafa Hussein, another signatory to the \"Jewish Supremacy\" letter, has a PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis. He's currently teaching at the Department of Judaic Studies at Michigan University where he's working\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/society-of-fellows\/mostafa-hussein\"\u003E on a book\u003C\/a\u003E arguing that Zionism was based on Arab and Islamic ideas. Hussein, a graduate of Egypt's Al-Azhar University, claims that Jews constructed \"the identity of the new Jew and his sense of belonging to the Land of Palestine\/Israel\" by having \"exploited Arabo-Islamic knowledge\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe problem is not simply that some people involved in Jewish Studies hate Israel in their own free time, or even that they sign letters using the language of David Duke, it’s that they center their own extremist agendas at the expense of the Jewish people, whose heritage and legacy they exploit in a broader campaign to attack Jews using Jewish Studies as their weapon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the University of Massachusets, Alon Confino acts as the Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies when he isn't complaining that Germany isn't antisemitic enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The situation in Germany today is absurd. Any harsh critique of Israel’s occupation or its policies is deemed antisemitic. Is this really a lesson Germans want to draw from the Holocaust?\" Confino whined in an article equating Israel with Nazi Germany and urging that, as \"Holocaust scholars\", it was important to listen to the voices of Israel's Muslim “victims”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmos Goldberg, the co-author of the article with Confino, and another signatory to the “Jewish Supremacy” letter, is the co-editor of “The Holocaust and Nakba: Memory, National Identity and Jewish-Arab Partnership.” The Nakba is the Arab Muslim name for their failed genocide of the Jews that has become an annual “Lost Cause” commemoration and an orgy of racist violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe abuse of the Holocaust to attack Jews and support antisemites is routine in Jewish Studies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAtina Grossmann, a Cooper Union professor and a fellow the United States Holocaust Museum, is a signatory to the letter that uses the Neo-Nazi trope of “Jewish Supremacy”. But when the Museum protested Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s description of illegal migrant detention as “concentration camps”, Grossman rushed to the defense of the antisemitic leftist who is allied with Jeremy Corbyn and whose blood libels have encouraged hatred toward Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe letter signed by Grossman wailed that “the Museum’s decision to completely reject drawing any possible analogies to the Holocaust, or to the events leading up to it, is fundamentally ahistorical.” But comparing American immigration policies to the Holocaust is entirely historical.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGrossman was also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jewdas\/status\/1306223505084747777\"\u003Eone of the\u003C\/a\u003E signatories to a letter warning Facebook not to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism. As were Amos Goldberg, Lila Corwin Berman, Alon Confino, and multiple other signatories to the “Jewish Supremacy” letter including Hasia Diner.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDiner, an NYU prof of American Jewish History, and another member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, is refreshing in that she makes no effort to disguise her raving hatred for the Jewish State behind the obscure academic jargon of other academics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a hatefilled rant, Hasia Diner\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/bds-and-anti-semitic-terror-center-jewish-history-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E wrote that\u003C\/a\u003E though she abhorred “bombings and stabbings”, the murder of Jews is what “oppressed individuals resort to out of anger and frustration”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I feel a sense of repulsion when I enter a synagogue in front of which the congregation has planted a sign reading, ‘We Stand With Israel’”, Diner wrote. She described Israel as “a place that I abhor visiting, and to which I will contribute no money, whose products I will not buy”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe also complained that, “it is impossible to have a conversation about Israel or BDS because one is accused of being anti-Semitic.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe that’s because they are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJewish Studies has an antisemitism problem and it’s only been getting worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe signatories to the “Jewish Supremacy” letter are many of the same ugly figures in Jewish Studies who sign on to every anti-Israel letter that comes their way. They signed the letter opposing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the letter opposing campaigns against campus antisemitism, opposing the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and opposing, well, Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJewish Studies, as Lila Corwin Berman implies, ought to have little to do with actual Jews. But it’s not enough for Jewish Studies to displace Jews, burying a people in a mass grave of academic verbiage and social justice buzzwords, it must also set out to eliminate the Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs has happened so often, the theft of Jewish ideas and narratives is sealed with genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJewish Studies has become an academic war on the Jews. And no matter how good the intentions of the donors subsidizing chairs in Jewish history, Holocaust studies, and religious studies were, the academics who seize them adopt an eliminationist ideology, resenting the confines of Jewish identity, and seeking to destroy it by satanizing the Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same old narrative of Jewish history is playing out on campuses where the physical body of the Jewish people and the bodies of Jews are being ideologically separated from “Jewishness”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAcademic ‘Jewishness’ is constructed to mean anything and everything but actual Jews. Jews are reframed as the enemies of true Jewish values and ideas who must be destroyed to save “Jewishness” from the Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDivorcing the study of Jewish history and ideas from Jewish communal institutions and peoplehood has repeatedly created monsters, whether it’s Holocaust museums that promote Black Lives Matter and accuse Jews of Nazism, or Jewish Studies departments that are friendlier to Hamas than to Israel. Donors have to stop funding academic organizations detached from connection and accountability to the people whose peoplehood they exploit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAcademics have rediscovered the old notion that Jewish ideas are appealing, but actual Jews are not. Jewish ideas are pitted against real Jews, and the idea is used to beat to death the reality proving once again that the students of history are the last to learn from the past.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAntisemitic academics may not be able to learn from the past, but Jews don’t have that luxury.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4851546968081397266\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/jewish-studies-has-anti-semitism-problem.html#comment-form","title":"11 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4851546968081397266"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4851546968081397266"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/jewish-studies-has-anti-semitism-problem.html","title":"Jewish Studies Has an Anti-Semitism Problem"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZLoRXQ9OZt8\/YL6OxnsKfGI\/AAAAAAAATSs\/wG6DalnxyNUvt66qtGm1iASD4lz1dV6sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-07_142525.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"11"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3058092787278966778"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-23T01:06:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-23T01:06:58.910-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UN"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How the UN Stole Jewish Homes in Occupied Jerusalem and Set Off the Latest Conflict"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In 1948, the armies of seven Arab nations invaded Israel. They failed to wipe out the newly reborn nation,  but Jordan occupied part of Jerusalem and ethnically cleansed its Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-oPoNjv0HzWU\/YKni1FtxPKI\/AAAAAAAATP0\/-3Cd7I6bWt8D1z72hIa0TO4eRDgkmtsCQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s601\/Fleeing%2Bthrough%2BZion%2BGate.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"601\" data-original-width=\"594\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-oPoNjv0HzWU\/YKni1FtxPKI\/AAAAAAAATP0\/-3Cd7I6bWt8D1z72hIa0TO4eRDgkmtsCQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/Fleeing%2Bthrough%2BZion%2BGate.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAmong the former Jewish neighborhoods was a small area named Shimon HaTzadik or Simon the Righteous after a high priest who became famous for talking Alexander the Great out of putting up an idol in the Temple. The Arab Muslim colonists who had occupied the area however called it Sheikh Jarrah after an associate of the Iraqi invader Saladin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESaladin had invaded Israel some 1500 years after Shimon HaTzadik’s death. His associate settled in Jerusalem and died there. A mosque was built over the house of the invader, Jarrah, which later gave its name to the neighborhood when the Husseini family set up shop there in the 19th century. Hitler’s Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, grew up in the first house in the neighborhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeven years after he got a pledge from Hitler to invade and kill all the Jews, the Islamic leader tried to finish the job with the Army of the Sacred Jihad backed by thousands of Muslim Brotherhood Jihadis. Aside from blowing up the newspaper that would later be known as the Jerusalem Post, the Jihadis performed poorly in battle and fell apart when their commander, another Husseini, was killed trying to cut off Israeli supply convoys to the siege of Jerusalem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Jordanians desecrated the synagogues of East Jerusalem, used Jewish tombstones to pave roads, and seized Jewish property through their Custodian of Enemy Property.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1956, UNRWA worked with the Jordanian occupiers to settle “Palestinian refugees” in this Jewish neighborhood. The UN agency had been entirely dedicated to caring for the Arab Muslim settlers who had failed in their invasion of Israel and was settling them in violation of international law in the homes of the Jewish residents who had fled the illegal occupation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce the UNRWA had “resettled” its “refugees” in homes stolen from their Jewish owners through ethnic cleansing, it deemed them to no longer be refugees. The actual refugees however were the Jewish residents who had their homes stolen by the UNRWA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only thing more disturbing than a UN agency collaborating in ethnic cleansing was that after Israel liberated and unified Jerusalem, the illegal Arab Muslim occupiers of the homes not only refused to leave, but their right to remain in homes stolen from their Jewish inhabitants was taken up by the UN and the international community. Not to mention a lot of lawyers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt took the original Jewish owners five years to even win legal rights to the homes in court. But they didn't actually get the property back. In an attempt to avoid just the kind of international incident going on now, the Israeli authorities brokered a deal in which the Muslim squatters would pay rent and accept the legal rights of the Jewish owners of the trusts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe rent on the homes was a fraction of what they would go for on the open market. But even that money was never actually paid. The next three decades were spent trying to evict the illegal Muslim settlers who wouldn't pay rent or leave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe recent court decision on evictions, which was used by Hamas and the PLO as a pretext for the war that they had been planning on starting anyway, is the latest in a string of legal decisions over these homes going back 50 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese decisions came from independent courts, not the Netanyahu government, in a legal battle that began when he was a college student studying at MIT. There isn’t a single argument for why the Jewish trusts that owned the homes should have lost the right to them when Jordan invaded and seized those homes, or why the UNRWA’s decision to illegally collaborate in ethnic cleansing by settling members of an occupying nation in those homes was legal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll their arguments come down to shouting, “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing” when the only time there was apartheid and ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem was under Arab Muslim occupation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery anti-Israel radical in public office from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and the rest of the gang have denounced evictions from ‘Sheikh Jarrah’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. Israeli forces are forcing families from their homes,\" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez tweeted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The evictions of Palestinian families must not go forward,” Bernie Sanders ranted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The Administration should make clear to the Israeli government that these evictions are illegal and must stop immediately,” Senator Elizabeth Warren declared. Despite being a lawyer, she declined to identify how the Israeli court ruling was \"illegal\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration also got into the act.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We are deeply concerned about the potential eviction of Palestinian families in the Silwan neighborhood and in Sheikh Jarrah, many of whom have lived in their homes for generations,\" State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter, a former cheerleader who had\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/01\/blm-ex-cheerleader-state-dept-spokeswoman-said-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E falsely accused\u003C\/a\u003E America of genocide, claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only way to argue that the homes were “theirs” is by recognizing the legitimacy of occupation and ethnic cleansing, at least when it’s practiced by Muslim invading armies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe moral principle for which AOC, Sanders, Warren, and the State Department are fighting is that when Arab Muslims drive out the Jews and seize their homes, it’s their property now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe entire legal basis for the court case by the squatters is their claim that the property had been given to them by Jordan’s Custodian of Enemy Property office. This claim has standing in Israeli courts which chose to wrongly recognize those seizures. And so the court cases have revolved around whether the squatters could ever prove that an illegal occupying power had transferred title to them during its ethnic cleansing campaign. The squatters couldn’t even meet this low bar because they were never given title to the homes, but the vicissitudes of local real estate law aside, there’s still the invasion, the illegal occupation and the ethnic cleansing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen AOC, Warren, Sanders, Tlaib, Omar, the UN, and the Biden administration treat the occupiers of Sheikh Jarrah as the rightful owners, they’re defending ethnic cleansing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it should be called what it is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2G-w-oPV44Y\/YKni5jCfJJI\/AAAAAAAATP4\/L2ovCS9bBQIGj5E1uQEjqTTZQExlBUsegCNcBGAsYHQ\/s601\/After%2BEvacuation.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"601\" data-original-width=\"592\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2G-w-oPV44Y\/YKni5jCfJJI\/AAAAAAAATP4\/L2ovCS9bBQIGj5E1uQEjqTTZQExlBUsegCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/After%2BEvacuation.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe fundamental issue at stake in Shimon HaTzadik and Sheikh Jarrah are crystal clear. Unlike some parts of Israel where territory changed hands in more complex ways, we know exactly what happened and why it happened. And those simple facts tell a story of the UNRWA’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing of Jews, not just today when it serves as a storehouse for Hamas missiles and an employment agency for Hamas propagandists, but back in the 50s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJews were ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem after an invasion and occupation. The United Nations, through UNRWA, violated international law by taking part in population transfer by an occupying power which had expelled the indigenous population. This is the charge that the UN and the anti-Israel politicians and media have repeatedly lobbed at Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd they’re the ones guilty of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir Sheikh Jarrah argument is that ethnic cleansing and occupation are moral and legal when Arab Muslim armies do it. It’s that Arab Muslim squatters who moved into Jewish homes in 1956 had gained an immutable moral right to live in them by 1967 that outweighed those of the Jewish trusts which had owned them since the 19th century.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no better way to show the hypocritical double standards of an anti-Israel movement that cries about occupation, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid while practicing those very things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAOC, Sanders, Warren, the UN, the Quarter, the EU, and the Biden administration are demanding that the Arab Muslim occupation of Jerusalem continue. They are ordering a free country to overturn the legal ruling of a court in case that goes back to the 1970s because they believe that Arab Muslim occupiers have a right to live in Jerusalem… and Jews don’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s what this was about in 1948. That’s still what it’s about in 2021.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe occupiers cry about the “occupation” and the ethnic cleansers cry about “ethnic cleansing” as they fight to bring back the state of apartheid that drove the Jews out of Jerusalem.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3058092787278966778\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/how-un-stole-jewish-homes-in-occupied.html#comment-form","title":"12 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3058092787278966778"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3058092787278966778"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/how-un-stole-jewish-homes-in-occupied.html","title":"How the UN Stole Jewish Homes in Occupied Jerusalem and Set Off the Latest Conflict"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-oPoNjv0HzWU\/YKni1FtxPKI\/AAAAAAAATP0\/-3Cd7I6bWt8D1z72hIa0TO4eRDgkmtsCQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/Fleeing%2Bthrough%2BZion%2BGate.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"12"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4319738872687454008"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-20T14:53:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-20T14:53:40.707-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hamas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"PLO"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Why Biden Wants a War in Israel"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Terrorists have only one thing to offer. It’s right there in the name.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe business model of terrorism is killing people and then demanding a payoff. The game always works the same way. The terrorists attack, their targets fight back, and a third party sends in the diplomats to negotiate on behalf of the terrorists before they get hit too hard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Islamic terrorist war against Israel has worked exactly this way for generations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tA-OI-NEWwM\/YKawGLiAJWI\/AAAAAAAATPs\/0UotMpwJN7MWv41oJb3U7k8B8v0Pq7dywCNcBGAsYHQ\/s579\/biden%2Barafat%2Bframe.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"451\" data-original-width=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tA-OI-NEWwM\/YKawGLiAJWI\/AAAAAAAATPs\/0UotMpwJN7MWv41oJb3U7k8B8v0Pq7dywCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/biden%2Barafat%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ELike a radio pop song that plays every time you go into a supermarket, you know the next verse and can feel the next beat before it even kicks in no matter how much you hate the music.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s the same way with the regular mini wars that begin with a manufactured political provocation that can be blamed on Israel, (this time a court ruling evicting illegal Muslim colonists occupying homes that were seized during the ‘48 ethnic cleansing of Jews from Jerusalem), followed by terrorist violence with the usual pattern of attack and escalation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHamas and a few of its allies shell Israeli towns and cities using the latest Iranian technology and some of their own cruder models. Israel responds by calculatedly taking out terrorist compounds which Hamas has, with equal calculation, filled with civilian human shields.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEspecially children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPoliticians, the media, and social media (three distinctions without a difference) rush to attack Israel, vastly inflating the already inflated casualty figures put out by the terrorists, lying about the nature of the conflict, and doing their best to mainstream antisemitism a little more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration makes a few public statements vaguely supporting Israel’s right to defend itself, an absurd point, and sends in mediators to negotiate the payoff for the terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsrael had a brief break from America acting as the paymaster and bagman for the terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was a refreshing pause especially for all the children who didn’t get bombed, the homes that didn’t have rockets smash through their roofs, and the soldiers who didn’t get shot just so that State Department negotiators could tell Israel the current going rate for ending the attacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIslamic terrorists aren’t crazy or irrational. The average suicide bomber might be, but their leadership doesn’t do anything without a profit motive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe profits for Islamic terrorism against Israel come in two ways.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst, the terrorists are backed by Iran, Qatar, Turkey, and the rest of the Islamist gang to carry out attacks on Israel. Second, the terrorists are rewarded by the United States, Europe, and Israel for ending the attacks. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis never leads to peace because if you keep rewarding terrorists for ending the violence, you’re also telling them that if they do it all over again, they’ll profit from the violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPaying the terrorists not to attack you is really the same thing as paying them to attack you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the essence of the peace game is obliviousness. That means believing that there are root causes that can resolve the underlying grievances. The root cause is the existence of Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe terrorists want to destroy Israel: Israel doesn’t want to be destroyed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the negotiators came up with a compromise which satisfies no one: a two state solution that will only destroy a part of Israel. The solution, which has solved nothing and will solve nothing, incrementally destroys parts of Israel by handing them over to the terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe amount of Israel being destroyed through this process has kept on increasing ever since the original fake peace deal was celebrated by Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, and Yitzchak Rabin at the White House. Every exchange of fire leads to a push for a new peace “compromise” that will destroy even more of Israel by handing more territory over to the terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince this process provides the terrorists with zero incentive to stop the violence, it failed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Trump administration overturned conventional wisdom by recognizing that the terrorists, who had repeatedly rejected and sabotaged peace negotiations for two generations, not the Israelis, who had shown up for every bad faith attempt at negotiations, were the problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of taking away territory from Israel and giving it to the terrorists, President Trump began recognizing Israeli claims to parts of Israel, while cutting off money and political support from the terrorists. The terrorists didn’t turn pacifist, but they turned down the violence because they understood that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, unlike Kerry, wouldn’t be bailing them out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey just waited, while Kerry\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/arrest-kerry-collusion-islamic-terror-states-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E privately assured the terrorists\u003C\/a\u003E Trump would soon be gone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration is going back to the same old policies of propping up the terrorists. And the first thing you need to do when propping up the terrorists is giving them some leverage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe leverage of terrorists is terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERebooting the old negotiating process requires a war. And so the Biden administration turned on the money tap to the terrorists and their Iranian sponsors. It made it clear that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the anti-Iran coalition linked to the Abraham Accords were out of style in D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden also\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/02\/bidens-new-asst-sec-state-worked-islamic-terror-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E appointed Hady Amr\u003C\/a\u003E, a veteran of Qatar’s Brookings operation, a state backer of Hamas, as his “point man” on the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” which had been low on conflict.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt least the conflict had been low until Biden got started.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmr, a Lebanese anti-Israel activist, had made no secret of his raving hatred for Israel and support for the terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I was inspired by the Palestinian intifada,” Hady Amr had declared during his time as an anti-Israel activist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I have news for every Israeli,\" Amr ranted in one column written after Sheikh Salah Shahada, the head of Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, was taken out by an Israeli air strike.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EArabs \"now have televisions, and they will never, never forget what the Israeli people, the Israeli military and Israeli democracy have done to Palestinian children. And there will be thousands who will seek to avenge these brutal murders of innocents.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese days, Amr is the one doing the avenging for Israel’s attacks on Hamas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmr has repeatedly argued for a deal with Hamas. In 2019, he co-wrote an article arguing that Hamas should offer Israel a cease-fire with the PLO acting as a broker for the deal in exchange for Israel “offering a significant move on Israeli-Palestinian peace.” That’s diplo-mafia speak for appeasing the terrorists with more territory that they can use to launch attacks on Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut you can’t have a cease-fire until you first have a war. That’s the war now raging.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s the familiar model already embraced by terrorist organizations who pretend that their political and military wings are separate organizations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration policy is for the PLO to play the political wing to Hamas’ military wing. Hamas starts wars, and the PLO collects territory and concessions to stop the fighting, while disclaiming any responsibility for the violence. And the Biden administration oversees this terrorist shakedown by insisting that Israel make more concessions for ‘peace’. Diplomats and experts go around making the same false promises that Israeli appeasement of the PLO will discredit Hamas and make it possible for Israelis and the terrorists killing them to live in peace.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe purpose of this political strategy is to isolate Israel, creating a system that profits from terrorism while maintaining enough plausible deniability to keep a fake peace process going.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGenerations of this horror show have not been enough to discredit it. Not to the diplomats who keep pushing this big lie, and not to American Jews who when faced with a choice between blaming Israel and the politicians they support, always choose to blame Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden is rebooting the same old scam after stocking his administration with appointees like Amr who have made no secret of their hatred for the Jewish State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s Senior Director for Intelligence on the National Security Council, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/01\/biden-puts-anti-israel-bds-activist-charge-nsc-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EMaher Bitar\u003C\/a\u003E, was pictured dancing in a keffiyah in front of a banner reading, “Divest from Israel Apartheid”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReema Dodin, Biden's Deputy White House Legislative Director, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/reema-dodin-to-be-first-palestinian-american-white-house-staffer-650088\"\u003Ehad argued that\u003C\/a\u003E, “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/biden-picks-soros-bds-activist-asst-secretary-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ESarah Margon\u003C\/a\u003E, Biden's Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, had advocated for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/biden-picks-soros-bds-activist-asst-secretary-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eboycotts of Israel\u003C\/a\u003E and cheered a proposal to destroy the Jewish State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Obama administration stocked its foreign policy team with Iran Firsters, while the Biden administration has gone even further with a roster of Hamas Firsters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration seeks to blame Israel for a conflict for which it provided a profit motive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fighting in Israel commenced after the Biden administration sent the signal that it was resuming its support for the terrorists. The violence is a prelude to the negotiations. And Biden’s people have already laid out their plans for getting Israel to pay off the terrorists. All the terrorists had to do was attack Israel and wait for Biden’s team to do their dirty work for them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration wanted a war in Israel. It needed to blame Israel for that war. And now it got everything it wanted. The next stage is the pressure campaign against Israel tying together domestic anti-Israel lobbies like J Street, and the radical Left like AOC and Warren, to pressure American Jewish organizations to drop their already weak support for the Jewish State. And then, having isolated Israel, they’ll move in for the kill with their big pitch for a terror state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of this is bad for Israel, but it’s also terrible for America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEverything that the Biden administration’s team of terrorist sympathizers is doing to Israel, they also intend to do to America. If you think gas prices are bad now, wait until Iran really starts throwing its weight around. And while Biden’s people are insisting that the only real terrorist threat is domestic while dismantling our counterterrorism system, the Jihad will come.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAl Qaeda built up its networks into a massive international killing machine on Clinton’s watch, and ISIS grew into a state power while Obama was building up the Arab Spring. We don’t know what terrorist nightmares Biden will breed, but they are likely to be worse than either one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsraelis are in bomb shelters now, but after a few years of Biden, Americans might be there too.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4319738872687454008\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/why-biden-wants-war-in-israel.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4319738872687454008"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4319738872687454008"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/why-biden-wants-war-in-israel.html","title":"Why Biden Wants a War in Israel"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tA-OI-NEWwM\/YKawGLiAJWI\/AAAAAAAATPs\/0UotMpwJN7MWv41oJb3U7k8B8v0Pq7dywCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/biden%2Barafat%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}}]}});