In fact, if I were you, I’d invest in a little ‘Google’ search time – just to check the numerous Israeli technological, medical and security developments that your dad might be inadvertantly using now, and perhaps in the future.

He should stick by his principles and use only those goods and services coming from his favourite sources.

I have news for you sunshine:

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here’s what he said:

“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.”

You said yourself that you’ll only be truly happy when you ‘get a Jew to pay’ for ‘all those Palestinian babies’. Any Jew you said, anywhere. Then you looked strange and wept, because you didn’t have the courage to do such a thing yourself. You said you were ashamed. But not as much as I was.

“Bizarre internet material”, dear? No, I’d have to go to real Zionist apologist sites for that…

But, hey, I aim to please, so let me see what I can rustle up. Just for you, dearest…

No wonder mum left.

Before being carted off they gave an excellent performance, displaying various supremacist/chauvinist attitudes and behaviors.

No doubt the two charity workers will now attempt to hold court in prison. They’ll need a Mecca-finder, a beard-trimmer, a complimentary copy of the Koran, satellite T.V., a high-speed internet connection (to report their misery and oppression to the world) and made-to-order halal meals.

They’ll have all sorts of special needs, as mandated by their religion.

A gathering of the settlement movement’s leading figures in Jerusalem on May 22, documented in this exclusive Mondoweiss report, revealed the unprecedented influence of the settlers on Israeli policy. The event, a ceremony for the presentation of the Moskowitz Foundation Prize for Zionism, was organized and bankrolled by one of Netanyahu’s closest confidants and backers, the American casino tycoon Irving Moskowitz. For over a decade, Moskowitz has funneled millions in profits from his California-based Hawaiian Gardens casino, where he has been sued for exploiting undocumented workers, into settlement construction projects in the West Bank, including Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. He has also funded several neoconservative think tanks including a research center named after Netanyahu’s brother, Yonatan, who was killed while leading the Entebbe rescue raid in 1976. Moskowitz and Netanyahu have remained close since he established the center.

In 1996, Moskowitz convinced Netanyahu, in his first round as prime minister, to open a tunnel adjacent to the Temple Mount, a controversial act that led to several days of rioting and 70 deaths. Four years later, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to the tunnel set off the so-called Al-Aqsa uprising, the opening salvo of the Second Intifada. Now, Moskowitz’s imprint on the West Bank’s landscape is most clearly reflected in the expansion of the settlement called Kiryat Arba, a hotbed of Orthodox Jewish radicalism located high above the occupied city of Hebron.

Kiryat Arba founder Noam Arnon is the recipient of the 2009 Moskowitz Prize, an honor that included $50,000 in cash. After receiving his prize before a cheering crowd of two thousand settlers, Arnon complained to me, “We think that somehow the Arabs have taken over the international media and the international mood, and they convinced the world to believe that there is a Palestinian people and these people deserve to have a Palestinian state — which is totally untrue.”

*”[Hamas] took control by armed force of the aid trucks and of the goods that were sent to the private sector. The supplies were distributed between the [Hamas] party members and afterwards the remainder was put up for sale at exorbitant prices… People’s stories range from stories of murder of innocent people in cold blood to the unloading of bags of flour to the houses of Hamas activists while their neighbors were left starving (emphasis mine). When they asked [for some of the flour] they were offered to buy at prices which they could not afford to pay.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 22, 2009]

and

Headline: “Al-Habbash: Aid entering Gaza is no longer safe after [Hamas] has taken 63 trucks of food and medicine”

“[Palestinian] Minister for Social Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, said: ‘During the last three days, armed [activists] who belong to the Hamas movement have taken control of 63 trucks delivering aid consisting of food and medicine, which were on their way to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), after shooting at the drivers…

‘Unfortunately the way the aid enters into the Gaza Strip has not been safe during the last three days … Hamas has executed 19 civilians, and has shot another 63 civilians in the legs …’

“Regarding Hamas’s taking the aid he said: ‘The movement sells part of the aid on the open market and to private pharmacies, and the rest it distributes among its members, that is the message of hundreds of complaints from Gaza citizens received every day at the Ministry for Social Affairs’ (emphasis mine)… and he said that he has evidence from drivers who were shot before the contents of their trucks were requisitioned by force…”
[Al-Ayyam, Jan. 22, 2009]

The people of Gaza deserve better than this and I would like to be sure that the food aid gets to them without cost, whether monetary or in human lives.

Count in a bubble car – the Christmas cards were probably from War on Want’s special anti-Israel collection, to add insult to injury.

Efraim Inbar, described above as a ‘Likud security affairs specialist’ has no association with that party. He is a professor at Bar-Ilan University.

Khaled Abu Toameh, who I’ve met on a number of occasions, is not a ’stooge Arab Zionist ‘journalists whores’, though knowing him, I’m sure he would be greatly amused at this description.

People like Asad Abu Khalil (‘the angry Arab’) who blow their overheated, fake anger from the safety of a US university study, are one of the reasons why our region is in the state its in.

Indeed, the contrast between Abu Toameh, who lives and raises his family in Jerusalem, and the big hero Abu Khalil, who breathes Arab nationalist fire and brimstone from the safety of the open society of America, tells you most of what you need to know regarding which of these two men is worth listening to.