The Jerusalem settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev, named for rightist Revisionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky, knows how to handle Arabs. Just take it from Moshe Ben Zikri, recently elected “community adminstrator” (in Chicago he’d be called the ward boss or council leader) for the neighborhood. His most critical task: fighting the Arab menace, the campaign to take control of the community from its rightful Jewish residents. How will he do this? By levying a hefty $30,000 fine on any resident who sells an apartment to an unapproved tenant. Who approves? The Jewish residents, of course.
Among Ben Zikri’s convictions: that there is an Arab “fire” (yes, it appears the Carmel fire has become the reference du jour in the Israeli press) consuming Pisgat Ze’ev. His goal? To keep the neighborhood Jewish. That means, Arabs raus. Local Jewish hoodlums burned down Palestinian stores and beat up mixed couples who met there or just plain Arab teenagers who wanted to go to the mall. Ben Zikri, of course, denies any connection to such violence. It’s all good Germans, er Jews taking matters into their own hands without any direction from him. The Shabak however, may disagree, since it summoned him for a chat a few months ago.
That seems not to have prevented residents from awarding four of the nine local council seats to Zikari’s faction, which won him the top job. This means he is an elected official with a government budget representing the citizens of not just his neighborhood, but all of Jerusalem and by extension, Israel. It would be as if David Duke actually won that election when he ran for governor of Louisiana.
How did the good Kahanist win?
I told them the truth. That our enemies are taking control. Our girls are falling into their snares. And good residents are simply leaving when they discover they have an Arab neighbor.
For some history: in 2004, Israeli built the Separation Wall to separate Pisgat Ze’ev from the West Bank. As a result, East Jerusalem Palestinian residents found the neighborhood a desirable one and moved in in numbers. This is the alien influx that worries Herr Ben Zikri so, who estimates their are currently 550 Arab families polluting the Jewish gene pool:
The come here with the goal of conquering us from within. This might take the form of crime. or perhaps just the “taking” of our women. Then they make war against us. People sell their apartments to Arabs and that’s how they’ll take over building by building. Our goal is to keep the neighborhood Jewish so our girls won’t find themselves married and living in the [Arab] villages across the Shuafat highway.
He plans to force residents to sign a legal document that ensures that owners cannot sell to an unapproved buyer, otherwise they are subject to the fine. All nice and legal according to him. Isn’t it nice when you can exploit the law to enforce Kahanist/Nazi-type notions of racial purity like this?
H/t Ofer Neiman.
Does history really repeats? I can’t believe it…
Yee-hah! Welcome to Mississippi, 1950. Whoops, I meant Deutschland, 1935.
Moshe Ben Zikri, ugly racist or the ugliest racist EVER?
The monstro kippa ain’t helpin’ either.
Also, the white T-shirt makes me think of “Dueling Banjos.”
This guy own an El Camino with an 8-track?
But we all know this racist mindset is becoming more pervasive. This is what the U.S. is enabling when it funds Zionist expansion and Berman introduces into Congress an Aipac-drafted Resolution to condemn Palestinians for the failure of the peace talks and the Palestinians’ attempt to seek approval from other countries to declare Palestinian statehood unilaterally. The Resolution also condemns the countries that already acknowledged Palestinian statehood.
One day the U.S. is going to realize it created a monster. Israel will become the foreign policy embarrassment of the U.S. even more so than the fiasco of Iraq did.
We all know where Israel is heading. When this racist fascism and apartheid becomes even more widespread and totally transparent to the entire world, the U.S. will be hard-pressed to justify this unconditional, unholy alliance with Israel. The U.S. will be hard-pressed to justify enabling racist fascism before the U.N.
I’m counting on other countries to do the moral thing and introduce sanctions against Israel, whether or not the U.S. vetos them or not, it will be a moral victory for Palestinians and a sign to Israel and the U.S. that the rest of the world is on one side with the Palestinians and justice and that the U.S. is on the other side with Israel enabling occupation, oppression and injustice.
I’m afraid to comment here, I might be sticking too much to “Palestinian bylines” and, therefore, cross into “anti-Semitism”.
http://thebrothersofjudea.blogspot.com/2010/07/hpw-user-profile-persianadvocate.html
I never bothered to read my actual comments on there until earlier today. I ratify them now, wholeheartedly. My stances may be strong, but I pay due respect to Shoah survivors, and many of them would agree with me. I hope I don’t offend anyone, it is never the intention. My beliefs are humane and I am a citizen of Planet Earth foremost and above any artifice like a border. I also have to mention that all of my comments are taken out of context, which should be fairly obvious anyhow since you can’t see what or who I’m replying to. I was considering hitting CTRL+P in my word processor and shooting off a letter to have the site knocked to Kingdom come, but now I wear it like a medal of honor.
I am not religious, but here is how I interpret the story of the Tower of Babel, which Jews, Muslims and Christians believe and adopt into canon: we are not to war over our differences but to celebrate our diversity. The context of the story focuses around Nimrod’s hubris towards God. I believe it to be more about the above.
As for David and Goliath, David should have never brought a gun to a knife fight. Another story accepted by the triumvirate.
“America, the Silence of a Nation”
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=501846336947
I’ve got 4 or 5 entire sites set up to mock, irritate and smear me. As for this type of attack on you by a rightist pro Israel self-styled media watchdog blog, I wouldn’t sweat it; nor would I make too much of a deal about it. I’d say you prob. have bigger fish to fry.
But I also would prob. try to stay away fr. marginal theories about these subjects which are easily dismissed & ridiculed.
@PersianAdvocate
“As for David and Goliath, David should have never brought a gun to a knife fight. Another story accepted by the triumvirate”
Didn’t understand this one – in the Jewish version of the story in the Bible, David a mere 17 year old, came without armour and armed himself with a slingshot against the well decorated giant, Goliath, who wielded a sword. By any military analysis David was in the disadvantaged position and didn’t bring out disproportionate weaponary against the enemy.
Does the Quran have adifferent version?
By the way there’s lots of food for thought – the young Palestinians who stone throw against the Israeli army. Is this a tactic that is “acceptable” or is it bringing a gun to a knife fight?
You mean throwing a stone that will likely drop harmlessly before it ever hits an IDF soldier, who is armed to the teeth w. lethal weaponry which can & has killed quite a number of these protestors–THAT’S like “bringing a gun to a knife fight????” Puh-leeze, when the IDF drops the weapons & arms themselves w. stones as well, then we can talk about who’s bringing a gun & who’s bringing a knife. Till then, you lose this round.
Richard – you missed the irony
Efforts to control who can live where seem to have intensifed in recent years. When I first started to hear stories like this ten years ago, the guilty parties were co-operative associations that required prospective residents to undergo an interview. Now it’s prominent figures in major towns. I found the recent developments in Safed particularly chilling to read about:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-holocaust-survivor-whose-life-is-in-danger-again-2134223.html