Saturday, May 1, 2010
Like its French Heritage, Peace Now's Forte is Surrender
JCall is the French flavor of America's J Street. It will be launched at that bastion of Israel support, The European Union Parliament, in Brussels on May 3rd. In anticipation of the EU's foregone approval of its lethal mission, JCall has published a petition signed by hundreds of Jewish Palestinian supporters (quel surprise!). Giving short schrift to the "existential" threats facing The Jewish State, the document focuses on the "immoral" and "wrong" policies of Jewish settlement and "occupation." While demanding that "both sides" be subjected to pressure to reach a peaceful solution, as usual, all the pressure is exerted on the Jews. Formed from its parent organization, La Paix Maintenant (Peace Now), JCall will position itself as the mini-me of its American cousin. It's the "Now" in Peace Now that is the most troublesome. Driven headlong by fear and political correctness, Peace Now, in whatever language it is spoken, will yield to virtually any Arab or Muslim demand.
JCall and La Paix Maintenant, like its American progenitor, and the now marginalized Shalom Acshav in Israel, want peace not tomorrow, but NOW - apparently at any price. Its capitulationist agenda has been utterly rejected by nearly all Israelis and so they have to rely on foreign chapters to carry the ball to defeat. Their extreme advocacy will find a receptive audience in Brussels. It was only less than a year ago that a "distinguished" EU delegation traveled to Damascus to grovel before Hamas to urge Europe to recognize and parlay with that terror organization. Led by Clare Short, the delegation embraced Khaled Mashal, Hamas' leader. Short, the inveterate, anti-Israel former minister under Tony Blair has uttered some cheery statements, accusing Israel of:
"bloody, brutal and systematic annexation of land, destruction of homes and the deliberate creation of an apartheid system."
If there is a debate in Brussels on May 3rd it will amount to deciding simply when to issue its condemnation of Israel. It's also worth noting that Jeff Halper and his group the ICAHD (The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) receive most of their funding from the EU.
Remember the atrocious murder and torture of Ilan Halimi, the Morrocan Jew who was tortured to death by Muslim Israel haters in Paris in 2006? Searches of La Paix Maintenant's website yield no statements on the Halimi murder. Quel surprise, encore.
Another of the group's luminaries is Daniel Cohn Bendit, France's answer to Bill Ayers, or "Dany Le Rouge" as he was known in the '60's. Of course, he is now "Dany Le Vert", leader of the French Green Party, representative of that group to the EU.
Dany Le Rouge (1968) to....
Dany Le Vert (1999)...to Dany Le Brun - Shirt, that is(2010)?
Sounding like Jeremy Ben Ami's French cousin, he commented on Israel's Operation Cast Lead in January of 2009:
"Hopes of peace and security are going up in smoke in Gaza. We are further away from the prospect of peace than ever before. Those who claim that Hamas' rockets justify the war are mistaken. If you start a war, you must know your aim and how to end it. Israel's aim is to improve its security but it is only achieving the opposite. We need to protect Israel from itself and Palestinians from Hamas."
It beggars the mind to think of what tales of Israeli evils Red Danny will impart to the wise men of Brussels.
