This is bull hockey. The Obama Administration's Justice Department is politically motivated and has jostled numbers to make the JDL seem more violent ---- the JDL's terrorism dates back way before Obama was even in politics.
A 1985 FBI study of terrorist acts in the United States since 1981 found 18 incidents initiated by Jews, 15 of the acts by the JDL.4 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> In a 1986 study of domestic terrorism, the Department of Energy concluded: “For more than a decade, the Jewish Defense League (JDL) has been one of the most active terrorist groups in the United States....Since 1968, JDL operations have killed 7 persons and wounded at least 22. Thirty- nine percent of the targets were connected with the Soviet Union; 9 percent were Palestinian; 8 percent were Lebanese; 6 percent, Egyptian; 4 percent, French, Iranian, and Iraqi; 1 percent, Polish and German; and 23 percent were not connected with any states. Sixty-two percent of all JDL actions are directed against property; 30 percent against businesses; 4 percent against academics and academic institutions; and 2 percent against religious targets.”5 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> The JDL was suspected in two high-profile murders over the years. One came in 1972 when a bomb exploded in impresario Sol Hurok’s Manhattan office on Jan. 26. The explosion killed his receptionist, Iris Kones, 27, while Hurok and 12 others were injured. The JDL was suspected because Hurok was bringing Soviet performers to the United States.6 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> The next year, Jerome Zeller, an American JDL member, was indicted on charges of planting the bomb at Hurok’s office. He had since moved to Israel and his extradition was requested. Israeli authorities arrested the American expatriate but released him on $1,200 bail. He later was wounded in the 1973 war. Afterwards, the U.S. again requested extradition, but the response was, said U.S. Attorney Joseph Jaffe, who prosecuted the case, “You can...hold your breath until you die cause you ain’t going to get him because he’s a national hero.” Zeller was later reported living in the occupied West Bank among militant settlers.7 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> Kahane became an outspoken advocate for the “transfer” of all Palestinians. The other high-profile murder came in 1985, on Oct. 11, when Alex Odeh, 37, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) in Santa Ana, California, was killed by a bomb planted at his office. Odeh had appeared the previous night on a television show and called Yasser Arafat a “man of peace.” The Jewish Defense League praised the bombing but denied involvement, its usual practice in such incidents.8 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> One of the suspects was Robert Manning, 36, of Los Angeles, a JDL member. He and his wife, Rochelle, moved to Israel, where he joined the Israel Defense Forces. FBI agents said Manning and others were also suspected of being involved in a year-long series of violent incidents in 1985 including the August house-bomb slaying of Tscherim Soobzokov, of Paterson, N.J., a suspected Nazi war criminal; the Aug. 16 attempted bombing of the Boston ADC office in which two policemen were severely wounded; the September bombing at the Brentwood, Long Island home of alleged Nazi Elmars Sprogis, in which a 23-year-old passerby lost a leg, and the Oct. 29 fire at the ADC office in Washington, DC, which was called arson.9 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> By December 1985, FBI Director William H. Webster warned that Arab Americans had entered a “zone of danger” and were targets of an unnamed group seeking to harm the “enemies of Israel.”10 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> Manning and his wife lived in the radical Kiryat Arba settlement in Israel’s occupied West Bank until March 25, 1991 when, after two years of pressure, Israel acceded to U.S. extradition demands.11 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> The case caused critics to charge U.S. media bias against Arabs, noting that a week earlier the killing of American Jew Leon Klinghoffer aboard the hijacked *Achille Lauro* received heavy media coverage. They pointed out *The New York Times*devoted 1,043 column inches to Klinghoffer while devoting only 14 inches to Odeh’s death.12 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> Israeli police finally arrested the Mannings on March 24, 1991. Although strongly suspected in the Odeh murder, they were charged in a separate suit involving the 1980 letter-bomb murder of California secretary Patricia Wilkerson. [13] Robert Manning, but not his wife, was eventually extradited to the United States on July 18, 1993, and was found guilty on Oct. 14, 1993, of complicity in the Wilkerson murder.14 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> On Feb. 7, 1994, Manning was sentenced to life in prison.15 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> His wife died of a heart attack on March 18, 1994, in an Israeli prison while awaiting extradition.16 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> Meanwhile, Kahane had moved to Israel in 1971 and immediately became an outspoken advocate for the “transfer” of all Palestinians. His unabashed public voicing of a subject that Israelis had spoken about only privately for so long earned him instant popularity among the most radical of Israelis. He founded the Kach Party. Kach in Hebrew means “Thus!” and Israelis understood that the party’s name referred to the use of violence to ethnically cleanse the land. By 1984 Kahane was popular enough to win a seat in the 120-seat Knesset under the Kach banner.17 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> At the same time Kahane retained his U.S. passport, which he used frequently to keep in touch with his followers in the JDL in America.18 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> In October 1985, the State Department declared Kahane was no longer a U.S. citizen based on his acceptance of a Knesset seat and his statement that he had retained his citizenship only as a matter of convenience.19 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> However, Federal Judge Leo I. Glasser ruled in 1987 that Kahane could not be deprived of his U.S. citizenship since Americans are allowed dual citizenship.20 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> When Kahane appeared in the Knesset to take his oath, 2,000 demonstrators protested and a number of lawmakers denounced him.21 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> Within a year, however, Kahane was described by *The New York Times* as the most talked-about political figure in Israel whose popularity was soaring, especially among young voters.22 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> A September 1985 poll showed that Kahane’s popularity had increased to the point that if elections had been held at the time, his party would have received 10 seats in the Knesset, making Kach a significant political force.23 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> Such popularity of Kahane’s racist views was disturbing to liberal Israelis, and particularly to their U.S. supporters, who for so long had portrayed Palestinians as racists out to get rid of Jews. Now Kahane was giving Zionism’s critics powerful proof that Israel was a racist state. On Oct. 17, 1988, Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled that Meir Kahane’s political party was ineligible to take part in elections because it was “racist” and “undemocratic.”24 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> It was the first time in Israel’s history that a political party had been outlawed. Polls at the time showed that Kach would have likely received three to four seats in the coming November elections.25 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> Kahane’s end came in 1990 at the age of 58. He was shot dead on Nov. 5, 1990 in New York City in a midtown hotel.26 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> The suspect was El Sayyid A. Nosair, 34, an Egyptian-born Muslim who was a naturalized American living in Cliffside Park, N.J. He was a graduate of Egypt’s Hilwan University and worked as an air conditioning repairman for New York City. Police said Nosair had been under psychiatric care and taking anti-depressant drugs.27 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> Nosair was acquitted by a Manhattan jury on Dec. 21, 1991, but on Jan. 17, 1996 he was sentenced to a life term after he was convicted in a new trial of involvement in the assassination and also of conspiracy to commit terrorism with Egyptian Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the alleged mastermind of the [1993] World Trade Center bombing.28 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> As many as 30,000 mourners attended Kahane’s funeral in Brooklyn on Nov. 6, 1990, hailing him as “a pillar of Zion” and “a prophet who has fallen for the sacred land.” They carried placards reading “Death to all Arabs” and “Revenge.” Said Sol Margolis, president of Kach International, the U.S. arm of Kahane’s party in Israel: “There will be revenge. We believe in revenge.” 29 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> The next day in Jerusalem, on Nov, 7, some 15,000 persons held a four-hour funeral procession, shouting “death to the Arabs.”30 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> In mid-November, 10 persons received letters threatening violence in revenge for Kahane’s death. They included Columbia University Professor Edward Said, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and Clovis Maksoud, former U.N. ambassador of the Arab League.31 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> Kahane’s supporters in Israel also vowed revenge, adding: “Whoever thinks that Kahane and the Kach movement have been destroyed has made a great mistake.” Said Kach member Yoel Ben-David: “I promise you there will be a river of Arab blood.”32 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> During his years, Kahane had succeeded well beyond most expectations in changing the political landscape of Israel. *New York Times* correspondent John Kifner reported that Kahane had been successful in the sense that many of his ideas “had crept into the mainstream” in Israel. Dr. Ehud Sprinzak, an Israeli expert on far right activities in Israel, wrote: “Where he has succeeded is in changing the thinking of many Israelis toward anti-Arab feelings and violence. He forced the more respectable parties to change. In the 1970s Kahane was in the political wilderness, but by the 1980s the center had moved toward Kahane.” Today Kahane’s policy of “transfer” is openly discussed as never before and one political party, Moledet, with one Knesset seat, has ethnic cleansing as its single issue. Observed the Jewish Telegraph Agency: “Rabbi Kahane could die satisfied that his message has impacted deeply and widely throughout Israeli society.”33 <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-jdl.html#end> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 12:44:02 PM UTC-6, KeithInTampa wrote: > > This is bull hockey. The Obama Administration's Justice Department is > politically motivated and has jostled numbers to make the JDL seem more > violent, and Muslim Terrorism to be insignificant. > > By example, several well known terrorist attacks, including the > Chattanooga attack on the Army Recruiting Station, as well as Nidal Hassan > and his brutal terroristic attack at Fort Hood Texas was classified by the > Obama Administration as "Work Place Violence"; versus "Terrorism". > > Again: Bull Hockey. The facts are the facts, no matter how you try and > paint it Plain Ol. > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:31 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > .......not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims > ---- > hogwash ... > > The most zealous non-governmental Zionist terrorist organization has been > the Jewish Defense League. Its activists have been involved in a wide range > of crimes, and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has repeatedly cited > it as a criminal terrorist group. > > > The Jewish Defense League was founded in 1968 by Rabbi Meir Kahane. Born > Martin David Kahane in 1932 in Brooklyn, New York, he was the first-born > son of an orthodox rabbi who was active in the "revisionist" movement of > Zionist hard-liner Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky and other leaders of his > movement were guests at the Kahane household while Martin (Meir) was a boy. > As a youth, Kahane became an active member of the Jewish-supremacist Betar > movement, which Jabotinsky had founded in 1925. Kahane's first arrest came > in 1947, when he was fifteen, for leading a group of Betar youth in an > attack against visiting British foreign minister Ernest Bevin. (1) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#1> > > Two of Jabotinsky's most fervent followers went on to gain notoriety as > leaders of Zionist terror groups, and, later, as prime ministers of Israel: > Menachem Begin, who once headed the Irgun group, and Yitzhak Shamir, who > headed the Lehi group (Stern gang). Shamir, for example, played a crucial > role in the Lehi murder in November 1944 of British Middle East envoy Lord > Moyne, and in the September 1948 assassination of Swedish United Nations > peace mediator Count Folke-Bernadotte. (2) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#2> > > For a time in the 1960s, Kahane led a double life. He lived and worked > under the name of Michael King, keeping this identity secret even from his > wife. During this period, he later related, he worked for the Central > Intelligence Agency and for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For the > FBI he spied on the right-wing John Birch Society as well as on various > left-wing student groups. (3) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#3> > > Posing as the non-Jewish Michael King, he had affairs with a number of > young women he picked up in New York bars. One of them was Gloria Jean > D'Argenio, a (non-Jewish) 22-year-old model who worked under the name of > Estelle Evans. After their meeting in 1966, they promptly began an affair. > Never revealing his true identity, he even proposed marriage. After > Kahane/King broke off the relationship a few weeks later, she attempted > suicide by hurling herself into the East River, dying two days later (on > Kahane's 34th birthday). (4) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#4> > > Kahane's life changed dramatically in 1968, when he and several colleagues > founded the Jewish Defense League. Brandishing guns and provocative slogans > ("Every Jew a .22," "Never Again"), Kahane's JDL quickly attracted > considerable media attention. Kahane pointedly exploited rising anti-black > sentiment among Jews in the New York area. (5) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#5> > > Kahane and his new organization received important and probably crucial > support from two powerful allies: Israel's right-wing Herut political party > and the New York Mafia. > > Between December 1969 and August 1972, Kahane's JDL -- with important > support and guidance from Menachem Begin's Herut party in Israel, top > officers of Israel's Mossad secret service, and several wealthy American > Jewish businessmen -- carried out a campaign of criminal attacks against > Soviet Russian diplomats and other Soviet targets in the USA. The goal was > to focus attention on and generate sympathy for Soviet Jewry, and to damage > relations between the United States and Soviet Russia. (6) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#6> > > On May 12, 1971, Kahane and a dozen other JDL members were arrested by > federal agents for conspiracy to manufacture explosives. One day later, > Kahane announced an alliance with a group founded by Mafia boss Joseph > Colombo, Jr., a one-time killer who had risen to head the Colombo crime > syndicate. "Kahane received substantial aid from the New York Mafia," > writes Israeli journalist Yair Kotler in his biography of the JDL founder. > Until Colombo's murder in 1971, relations between Kahane and the New York > City mob boss were very close, and the two criminal chiefs worked closely > together. (7) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#7> > > Kahane claimed to have spent a total of three years in American prisons as > a result of his militant activities. (8) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#8> During the early 1970s, Kahane > abandoned the JDL and moved to Israel -- returning on occasional visits to > raise money. Building on the international notoriety he had gained as JDL > leader, in 1976 he launched his radical Kach party. In 1984 he was elected > to the Israeli Knesset (parliament) as his party's only deputy. Meanwhile, > the JDL's New York chapter collapsed, and splinter groups emerged with > names such as the "Jewish Direct Action," the "United Jewish Underground," > "Save Our Israel Land," and the "Jewish Defenders." (9) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#9> > > Kahane was assassinated on November 5, 1990, while addressing a meeting of > supporters at a hotel in midtown Manhattan, New York City. (10) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#10> > Rabbi Kahane's Ideology > > In numerous speeches and essays, and in several books, Meir Kahane > preached an arrogant and even genocidal message of Jewish supremacy and > ruthless Zionism. For the JDL leader and his many fervent followers, any > and all measures to further Jewish survival and welfare -- including > terror, dispossession and murder -- are entirely justified. (11) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#11> > > Typical of his passionate and outspoken prose style is a representative > essay by Kahane that appeared in 1980 in a leading Jewish community paper. > He wrote: (12) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#13> > > ...Vengeance is a fundamental Jewish concept that is a precept, > injunction, commandment for the Jew...Vengeance becomes, thanks to the > gentilized and perplexed era in which we live, a maligned thing...Let the > government of Israel, which is responsible for the lives of its citizens, > make the streets, buses, shops and homes of the Ishmaelites [Palestinians] > perpetual places of terror and stark insecurity...Wipe away the bitter > degradation of God's name that is symbolized by Arab refusal to bow to > Jewish sovereignty. A truly Jewish government is one that understands the > need to...burn out the desecration by removing, burning out, the evil that > is the Arab nation in our midst. > > In another essay, this one published in 1973, Kahane emphasized Jewish > invincibility. The day will come, he promised, when all non-Jews would > acknowledge the superiority of the Chosen people: (13) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#13> > > The Jewish people cannot ever be destroyed, but rather they and their G-d > of History will emerge in days to come triumphant over the evils and > foolishness of all other nations. Zion will and must emerge as the mount to > which all peoples will turn and the Jewish L-rd will be the One before Whom > all knees bend... > > In an essay published in 1982, Kahane stressed the pitiless, either-or, > us-or-them, nature of the struggle between Jews and their "enemies": (14) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#14> > > Let us look at events through Jewish eyes...Lebanon:...A war was begun [by > Israel] against a "Palestinian" enemy -- an entire people -- which seeks to > wipe out the Jewish state and the vast majority of its Jews. It was...a war > unto the death, the utter destruction of the enemy, the instilling of total > fear, terror, until he capitulates and acknowledges the L-rd. > > Jewish and liberal democratic values are incompatible, Kahane often > insisted: "I have said it a million times. Western democracy as we know it > is incompatible with Zionism...The idea of a democratic Jewish state is > nonsense." (15) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#15> On another > occasion he stated: "Democracy is for people who don't have the truth. No > earthly, temporal government has any relevance to the actions of the Jew > when its orders and regulations are contrary to [Jewish] Torah > law...Judaism has never been a democratic form of society." (16) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#16> > > A virtual obsession for Kahane was the brutal wartime treatment of > Europe's Jews. "Never Again," the JDL slogan, pointedly referred to the > Holocaust experience. In Kahane's view, every non-Jew is a potential Nazi > murderer. "As long as one gentile lives opposite one Jew, the possibility > of a Holocaust remains," he wrote. (17) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#17> The moral measure of every > action, Kahane stressed, must be "is it good for the Jews?" Failure to act > in accordance with this principle, he emphasized, will lead to "a new > Auschwitz." (18) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#18> > > *Meir Kahane in 1979 at his headquarters in Jerusalem, the "Musuem of the > Potential Holocaust."*(Photo from *The False Prophet* by Robert Friedman) > > In his biography of Kahane, author Robert Friedman relates some of the > quirkiness of the militant rabbi's personality. Recalling his first meeting > with him at his "Museum of the Potential Holocaust" in Jerusalem, Friedman > wrote: "It struck me on that first encounter that Kahane was a man obsessed > with sex and violence. He chattered incessantly about Arab men sleeping > with Jewish women." (19) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#19> > > Kahane publicly called Arabs "dogs," (20) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#20> and on at least one occasion > promised to eliminate Arabs from Israel "like bug spray on these > cockroaches." (21) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#21> In numerous > speeches, and in a 1980 book entitled They Must Go, Kahane outlined his > plan for the forcible mass expulsion (or "transfer") of Palestinian Arabs > from the "Land of Israel" -- that is, "greater Israel" (including the West > Bank territory seized by Israel in 1967). > > Kahane's worldview was summed up in the "statement of principles" of the > Kach movement, which he founded and headed. It begins with an arrogant > description of "the Jewish People" as "special, chosen, holy and supreme." > (22) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#22> A primary Kach goal is > > the transfer of the Arabs from all parts of Eretz Israel [the enlarged > "Land of Israel"]. The Arabs' presence in Israel ensures hatred, > disturbances, and bloodshed. It is a time bomb, threatening the existence > of the Zionist enterprise. The Arabs living in Eretz Israel must therefore > be transferred to the Arab countries. > > Kahane and his supporters agitated for an Israeli law that would > criminalize sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews. (At it is, Jews > were already forbidden from marrying non-Jews in Israel.) The proposed law > would also outlaw a broad range of social contacts between Jews and > non-Jews, including mixed schools, community centers, beaches, and even > neighborhoods. (23) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#23> > > Kahane and his sympathizers have never been particularly bothered by the > parallels between his proposed law and Hitler's "Nuremberg Laws" of 1935, > which similarly banned sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews. (24) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#24> > > As Kahane and other hardline Zionists have persistently pointed out, > Jewish religious law clearly forbids Jews to marry non-Jews. (25) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#25> Similarly, Kahane never tired of > citing Jewish religious scripture in support of his ruthless, > uncompromising message. As American Jewish author Lenni Brenner has > acknowledged, Kahane and his supporters are (26) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#26> > > absolutely correct in insisting that Judaism was a tribal religion, > replete with hereditary priests performing animal sacrifices. It was > genocidal to the Amalekites, and tried to do so toward the Canaanites. > There was much else that was fanatic and racist. > Support for Kahane and the JDL > > Few prominent Israeli or American Jewish community leaders were ever > willing publicly to support Kahane, and major American Jewish organizations > -- such as the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League of > B'nai B'rith, and the American Jewish Congress -- took care to disavow > Kahane and the JDL. At the same time, though -- and in spite of his > well-documented criminal record and his message of undisguised bigotry and > arrogance -- Kahane and the JDL enjoyed sympathy and considerable support > from a surprisingly broad cross-section of American Jewry. Over the years, > American Jewish businessmen gave millions of dollars to Kahane. (27) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#27> > *Zionist terrorism is the subject of a front-cover feature article in the > New York weekly Village Voice, November 12, 1985*. > > At the conclusion of an address given in 1971 at a prosperous synagogue in > Potomac, Maryland, during which the JDL leader praised the fire-bombing of > a car, the well-to-do congregation gave Kahane a standing ovation. (28) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#28> Jackie Mason, a prominent > American comedian, publicly supported Kahane and performed at a > fund-raising benefit for the JDL in early 1972. "Democratic principles > shouldn't apply to Israel like they do to America," explained Mason (like > Kahane, an ordained Rabbi). (29) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#29> At > a single fundraiser dinner in Boston in 1986, more than $20,000 was > reportedly collected for Kahane. (30) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#30> > > An indication of Kahane's acceptance by even major American political > figures came in 1972, when the JDL leader was invited by US Senator Henry > "Scoop" Jackson to stand together with him on a New York City stage. This > was during the powerful politician's campaign for the Democratic party's > presidential nomination. (31) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#31> Another > prominent JDL supporter was US Congressman Mario Biaggi, who represented > the Bronx in Washington. (32) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#32> > > A leading Jewish community paper, the sensational Brooklyn-based weekly > Jewish Press (with a circulation of 130,000 to 160,000), took on Kahane as > an editor and columnist, giving him an influential forum for his strident > and often deliberately mendacious writing. (33) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#33> > > America's most influential daily paper, the (Jewish-owned) New York Times, > gave Kahane a measure of respectability and legitimacy by publishing essays > by him on its widely read "op ed" opinion page.(34) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#34> Kahane's book, They Must Go, > which calls for the genocidal mass expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from > their ancient homeland, was published in 1980 by the "mainstream" New York > publishing firm of Grosset & Dunlap. > > American television, newspapers and magazines never subjected Kahane to > even a fraction of the criticism and contempt they so readily directed > against non-Jewish militants in groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, the "Aryan > Nations" or "The Order," which preached comparable messages and goals. > > In Israel, Kahane won support and even a measure of fanatical devotion > from many "ordinary" Jews, particularly "Sephardic" Jews from the Arab > world (who now make up a majority of Israel's Jewish population). > Describing a visit by Kahane to the Israeli city of Afula in July 1985, > during a period of Jewish-Arab tension there, journalist Yair Kotler wrote: > (35) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#35> > > His appearance was enough to heat up the atmosphere and incite the > curly-haired young people on the street corners, who see each Arab as a > potential threat to their social standing. > > Those on the street corners shouted "Kahane the savior!"' They attacked > Arabs, both from within Israel [proper] and the [occupied] territories who > came to Afula to work. They threw stones at Arab cars ... > > They looted shops. The mob continued to shout "Kahane, Kahane! Death to > the Arabs," sweeping before it everyone it encountered ... > > His [Kahane's] distorted face was seen by millions of viewers in Israel > and throughout the world as he shouted, "The only answer is to throw the > Arabs out. I want the Arabs out, out, out!" > > The city was a volcano. Kahane had set the tone from afar, and fear and > hatred were rampant. Passions ran high. The Arab was the enemy...Meir > Kahane, the racist who had come to Israel from the United States, had lit a > fire. > > Kahane is dead, but the flames of bigotry and fanaticism he worked so hard > to fan still burn. Indeed, recent surveys show that ever more Israeli Jews > support, or are at least willing to seriously consider, the most brutal > measures against the Arabs living under their control, including genocidal > forced mass expulsion from the land of "greater Israel." > Zionist Criminal Activities: A General Overview > > Over the years, Zionist militants have carried out hundreds of illegal > actions against real or imagined "enemies," including many acts of > vandalism and harassment, and countless threatening phone calls. What > follows here, though, are details about some particularly spectacular > criminal operations. While JDL responsibility for many of them has been > conclusively established, in some cases precise responsibility could not be > established. > > - On January 26, 1972, a JDL team firebombed the New York City offices > of a US-Soviet cultural exchange agency. Killed in the fire was a > 27-year-old secretary (who happened to be Jewish). Thirteen others were > injured. One participant, Sheldon Siegel, confessed to police that he had > made the bomb, and provided the names of the others involved in the crime. > Several years later Kahane acknowledged JDL responsibility for the crime. > However, the case against the JDL members who were charged in the incident > was eventually dismissed on a technicality. (36) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#36> > - In May 1972, ten JDL thugs broke into the Austrian consulate in > Washington, DC, and beat Austria's ambassador to the US, Karl Gruber, as > well as the building's janitor. (37) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#37> > - In May 1974, JDL members attacked Arab-American community activist > Dr. Mohammed Mehdi with a lead pipe, sending him to the hospital with a > broken back. It took nearly a year for the police to make an arrest, even > though a perpetrator had appeared on television to boast of the deed. A > short time later, Mehdi's offices in Manhattan were almost totally > destroyed in an apparent arson attack. (38) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#38> > - On February 21, 1975, a US federal court found Kahane guilty of > violating terms of a probation stemming from his 1971 felony conviction > for > manufacturing firebombs. He had been forbidden from having anything to do > with bombs, dynamite or other weapons, or encouraging violence. Citing > incriminating letters written by Kahane in which he had urged followers to > assassinate Russian and Arab diplomats, the judge sentenced the rabbi to > one year imprisonment. Kahane served eight months of this term in a > Manhattan halfway house, which he was allowed to leave every day to eat in > kosher restaurants. Kahane used this period of "imprisonment" to conduct > JDL business. (39) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#39> > > *Jewish Defense League responsibility for a terrorist firebombing > attack against an alleged "Nazi war criminal" is reported here in theNew > York Post, September 7, 1985.* > - In 1975, 21-year-old JDL member David Kamaiko hijacked an executive > helicopter in New York City, demanding $2 million ransom to buy guns for > the JDL. Kamaiko shot the pilot before he was himself subdued. (40) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#40> > - In 1978, Canadian JDL leader Joseph Schachter bombed the home of > right-wing activist Donald Andrews. (41) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#41> > - On April 11, 1982, JDL member Allan Goodman opened fire with a > machine gun at a Muslim house of worship in Jerusalem, killing two > Palestinian Arabs: an elderly man and a 20-year-old youth. After entering > the mosque, he continued firing, critically wounding several people. > Goodman, from Baltimore, Maryland, had received paramilitary training at > the JDL's Camp Jedel in New York state. In an interview, Kahane said of > the > crime, "There was nothing wrong with what he did...the act was perfectly > correct." (42) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#42> > - In 1987, three members of the Jewish Defense League were arrested > for their involvement in at least six bombing attacks carried out the New > York area between 1984 and 1987. The accused were Jay Cohen, Sharon Katz > and Victor Vancier, head of the JDL in the New York area. After admitting > his role in the terror bombings, Vancier was sentenced in October 1987 to > ten years imprisonment. Another JDL member, Murray Young, was sentenced to > five years in prison. (43) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#43> > - FBI officials believe that the JDL was behind the bomb blast in > mid-August 1985 that killed Tscherim Soobzokov in Paterson, New Jersey, > and > a similar (although non-fatal) bombing attack in early September 1985 > directed against Elmars Sprogis in Brentwood, New York. Soobzokov and > Sprogis were falsely alleged to have been "Nazi war criminals." (44) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#44> > - In January 1991, Kurt Haber -- identified in newspaper reports as a > "Jewish Holocaust survivor" -- was charged with making criminal threats > against the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee.(45) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#45> > > Alex Odeh Murder > > Perhaps the most widely-publicized crime in which the JDL has been > implicated is the murder on October 11, 1985, of Alex Odeh, West Coast > regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Odeh > was killed in a bomb blast when he entered his group's office in Santa Ana, > southern California. (46) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#46> > *Alex Odeh* > > An FBI official announced in 1985 that the Jewish Defense League was > believed responsible for the murder of Odeh and at least two other > terrorist incidents on the East Coast. "We are attributing the three > bombings to the JDL," said FBI official Lane Bonner. (47) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#47> Similarly, an FBI report released > in July 1986 cited "elements" of the Jewish Defense League as responsible > for the murder of Odeh. (48) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#48> > > Three JDL members were identified by US federal investigators in 1988 as > the perpetrators of the bombing that took Odeh's life. The accused > assassins, who were born in the USA but fled to Israel to avoid punishment, > are Keith Fuchs, Andy Green and Robert Manning. (49) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#49> Law enforcement officials in Los > Angeles and New York have named Robert Manning -- an important Jewish > Defense League activist -- as a suspect in at least four political bombings > in 1985, including the one that killed Odeh. Manning, authorities said, had > a two-decade history of violent activities that also included threats > against producers of a television show. (50) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#50> > *Robert Manning* > > After joining the southern California chapter of the Jewish Defense League > as a charter member in 1971, Manning quickly earned a reputation as a > particularly tough street fighter. JDL chief Irv Rubin praised him as a > "pretty strong boy. I've seen him fight. We tangled with Nazis in the > streets, Arabs in the streets. He was a real active guy." (51) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#51> In a 1988 court document, a > federal prosecutor wrote: "It became known that [Manning], while purporting > to act on behalf of the Jewish cause, on several occasions placed or threw > explosive devices at locations of Arab antagonists." (52) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#52> > > The Israeli government sought to obstruct the FBI's investigation of the > Odeh slaying, the federal agency charged in November 1987. (53) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#53> Manning himself tried to evade > extradition by claiming heart trouble, by taking 20 sleeping pills, and by > charging that he was being wrongfully persecuted simply because he is a > pious, orthodox Jew. In spite of all this, Manning was finally extradited > to the United States in July 1993. (54) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#54> > Official Confirmation of JDL Terrorism > > The US Justice Department's Federal Bureau of Investigation has repeatedly > characterized the JDL as a terrorist and criminal organization. A report > issued in 1985 by the FBI's Terrorist Research and Analytical Center > confirmed: (55) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#55> > > In FBI terrorism analyses published since 1981, responsibility for 18 > terrorist incidents has been attributed to groups seeking to publicize past > and present injustices suffered by the Jewish people. While claims for some > of these acts have been made in the names of the "Jewish Defenders,' > "United Jewish Underground," and "Jewish Direct Action," 15 of the > incidents were attributed to the Jewish Defense League (JDL), by far the > most well known of these groups. > > Also in 1985, the FBI named the Jewish Defense League as the second most > active terrorist group in the United States. (Only Puerto Rican terrorists > were more active during this period.) The FBI linked the JDL to 37 > terrorist attacks carried out from 1977 to 1984. (56) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#56> Two years later, the FBI > announced that Jewish extremist groups had carried out 24 terrorist acts > from 1981 through 1986, 17 of which were the work of the Jewish Defense > League. (57) <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#57> > *The Jewish Defense League was named in 1985 as a major terrorist group by > the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, as a major California newspaper > reports here.* > > Another US federal government agency, the Department of Energy, similarly > characterized the JDL in a report issued in 1986: (58) > <http://www.whale.to/b/zionist.html#58> > > For more than a decade, the Jewish Defense League (JDL) has been one of > the most active terrorist groups in the United States. Although the JDL > maintains that it is a political action group concerned with dramatizing > the plight of Soviet Jewry and, in more general terms, protecting Jews and > Jewish interests worldwide, the FBI has long classified it as a terrorist > organization. > > ...The underlying purpose of the JDL is to reverse the mythical image of > the Jews as victims. This militancy also fuels the anti-Soviet campaign > designed to create and foment new sources of tension in Soviet-American > relations ... > > The JDL, however, has also attacked Arab, Iranian, Iraqi, Egyptian, > Palestinian, Lebanese, French, and German targets in the United States ... > In 1978 [for example], Egyptian diplomats were targeted...Attacks have also > been staged by League chapters in France, Britain, Italy and Israel. > > *David Willcox (left) at a demonstration in Washington, DC, April 22, > 1993, to protest the new US Holocaust Memorial Museum. A short time after > this picture was taken, Zionist hoodlums attacked and seriously injured > him.* > > ... -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
