The type of "lowlife" I wrote about yesterday, the kind who works against the interest of his country, and humanity as a whole, has one benefit. If such a person attacks a person, group or institution, he proves that the victim of his attack is working for a noble end. Sometimes, the attack alerts me to people whose work I was unfamiliar with. I also learn about groups that had not been on my "radar." Among these groups is the Olive Tree Initiative. A pro-Likud website that supports Israeli terror said that the initiative had been infiltrated by pro-terror members of the International Solidarity Movement, and was sending students to the West Bank and Israel to meet people like Aziz Duweik, a top Hamas leader, or George S. Rishmawi or George N. Rishmawi, who are from the ISM, which openly supports "Palestinian terror." The list also included Mazin Qumsiyeh, one of the founders of the Boycott Divest Sanctions movement, and John Ging, the director of UNRWA in Gaza, who was accused by Israel of being responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and supporting the freedom flotilla. How can we benefit from all of these accusations? It means that the Olive Tree Initiative is a peace movement, and that the Rishmawis are peace advocates, along with Mazin Qumsiyeh, who is an Arab-American professor who returned to Palestine to teach at Birzeit University; he leads peaceful activities against Israeli terror. Duweik is certainly a militant from a national liberation movement that is against Israeli terror. The heel of the shoe of any Hamas member is more honorable than the necks of the government of Israel and its terrorist army, which kills women and children. It is officially called the Israeli Defense Force, a name that means the opposite of what it really is, like the countries of the former Socialist camp, each with the name "democratic," even thought they were not. Perhaps readers have noticed the excessive attacks against an international official whose crime is to have witnessed something and spoken the truth; he should be given high marks for his sense responsibility and humanity. Likudniks have the gall to attack a Jewish group, Ir Amim, which opposes the Judaization of Palestinian land. These Likudniks go even farther when they attack American universities that embraced Israel Apartheid Week, which lasts for about a month. In attacking the organizers of Apartheid Week, these people cite the Anti-Discrimination League and the Israeli ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren. From this, we know that the organizers are peace advocates and that the ADL and Oren represent a terrorist state and they are trying to cover up Israeli crimes against all of humanity, not just the Palestinians. The Likudniks also attacked the former Jordanian foreign minister, Marwan Moasher, and CNN's Christiane Amanpour, because she interviewed him and he called for working with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood are my brothers, and I do not need an attack against them by a Likudnik for me to deal with them. Marwan Moasher is a patriot and this is why I was very angry to see him write an article on Syria with Madeleine Albright. She is another Likudnik who has crawled out of her cave and his name should not be linked to hers. Tycoon George Soros, an American Jew of Hungarian descent, has been subjected to unending attacks by Israel and its fanatic supporters, which means that he is very successful in his work for peace and bringing the world's peoples together. The most outrageous thing I read about this man recently was that he partially funded the International Crisis Group, which committed the crime of Moasher, by calling for dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood. This means the ICG supports peace, and I know this - however, the attack by the Likudniks on the organizations settles the matter, in its favor. If I could attack something like the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, for example, it would be the Brookings Institution, which hosts the Saban Center, funded by the billionaire extremist Haim Saban, an Egyptian-born American-Israeli who supports the real terror in the Middle East, namely Israeli terror, and tries to teach us about democracy via the fine, moderate Brookings Institution. If readers have any doubt about the work of a person or organization, all they have to do is monitor the stance of the Israeli lobby and extremist Likudniks on the people or groups in question. When they are attacked, it is a badge of honor. [email protected]
