Posted on 02/22/2003 5:25:25 AM PST by alan alda
Media Monitor
Out Of The Woodwork
By Jason Maoz
Senior Editor
As we noted last week, a pro-Palestinian website urged a mass protest of an opinion piece by Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder that appeared in the Jan. 31 issue of The Jewish Press.
All Mason and Felder had suggested in their article was that perhaps it was time for Israel to consider mass expulsion of Palestinians as a practical means of dealing with the unending terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. That was enough, however, to send the anti-Israel brigade scurrying to their computers to type out their vicious little e-mails as instructed by their puppeteers at The Electronic Intifada.
For a representative sampling of what we received, please turn to this week’s Letters to the Editor section. In this column, though, we’ll focus on two individuals whose letters the Monitor found particular interesting — almost as much for who wrote them as for what they contained.
First, the text of a charming e-mail sent by one Alan Cabal: “Having viewed the atrocious genocidal editorial authored under the byline of Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder, I can only warn you in the strictest terms that the vast majority of Americans are so sick of Israeli manipulation of our country that we may soon find ourselves caught in a spasm of anti-Jewish sentiment that will make the Nazis look dainty by comparison.
“If and when that happens, I assure you that I, personally and at no small risk to my own person, will see to it that the righteous Jews here in the U.S.A. are protected. I am by no means pleased with the idea of this scenario, but you in Israel are deliberately endangering the Jews of the world with your atrocious chauvinism and racism. I will do nothing to protect you Zionists. You are an aberration and a blasphemy against an otherwise noble faith. God damn you.”
Since there happens to be an Alan Cabal whose byline has appeared atop some memorably anti-Israel writing in the freebie tabloid New York Press, the Monitor immediately dispatched an e-mail asking whether this was that Alan Cabal. “Indeed it is,” he responded.
And then there was this letter from Rhonda Neugebauer: “Running an article by so-called celebrated comic Jackie Mason was a bad choice, given that he insists on relocating all Arabs and supports the ethnic cleansing of Israel. What if someone advocated that now for all Jews, would you not denounce it?”
Ms. Neugebauer, it happens, is a librarian at the Univer sity of California at Riverside who leads friendly missions to Cuba and routinely signs petitions harshly critical of the U.S. and Israel. In short, she is one of those radical activists whose enthusiasms have made the American Library Association such an irredeemably leftist stronghold.
Responding to the particulars of her letter, the Monitor wrote back: “If Jews in an Arab country were sending out wave after wave of suicide bombers, and teaching in their schools and synagogues that Jews who kill Arab women and children will go to Heaven, and Jewish leaders were telling their people in Hebrew and Yiddish that they were engaged in Holy War against the Arab infidels -- how unreasonable would it be for some Arabs to start thinking of mass expulsion of Jews?”
Her reply to the Monitor was a poorly written tirade that fairly shouted an arrogance almost equal to the woman’s obvious ignorance:
“Are you arguing with me? I do not have the time nor inclination to correct your racist, bigoted thinking. That you would send me this note shows that your publication is oriented toward one point of view, with absolutely no desire to see things as they really are (i.e. being REALITY BASED). Please remember that it is Israel that occupied the PALES TINIANS’ land and has been killing them day after day after day....
“Big, tough, bullying Israel kills unarmed Palestinians (children and families alike) with a massive arsenal provided by big, tough, bullying United States that wants an empire in the Middle East to pacify and control all the Arabs.
“Don’t write me again with your lies, deceit and unwilling ness to look at reality! And you call yourself “Jewish Press.” Why not call yourself Zionist, Arab-hating babykiller press....”
Jason Maoz can be reached at jmaoz@jewishpress.com
Took me a few seconds to get my mind around that incongruity. <|:)~
Yeah, right.
“If and when that happens, I assure you that I, personally and at no small risk to my own person, will see to it that the righteous Jews here in the U.S.A. are protected. I am by no means pleased with the idea of this scenario, but you in Israel are deliberately endangering the Jews of the world with your atrocious chauvinism and racism. I will do nothing to protect you Zionists. You are an aberration and a blasphemy against an otherwise noble faith. God damn you.”
Does Cabal still write for the NY Press? I wonder if Russ Smith (Mugger) knows his staff writes such hatefilled, ranting, email screeds in their spare time.
I can only warn you in the strictest terms that the vast majority of Americans are so sick of Israeli manipulation of our country....
Which Americans is he speaking of? I'd like to know, since two new polls, Zogby and Gallup, indicate very strong, and growing support for Israel (or Zionism if you will.) Talk about boilerplate anti-semitism....
on 9/23/02 11:43 PM, Declan McCullagh at declan_at_well.com wrote:
> CYBERSPACE - September 19, 2002: LibertyForum > (http://www.libertyforum.org), a libertarian web-based news and > political discussion site, has been listed as a "hate speech" site > shortly after its September 13, 2002 opening. This categorization > comes courtesy of SurfControl (http://www.surfcontrol.com), which > characterizes itself as "The World's Leading Web Filtering Software > Company."
The same outfit has labeled www.whatreallyhappened.com as a "hate site." Clearly criticism of Eric Scheinermann (aka "Ariel Sharon") or the Israeli state constitutes "hate speech." Also check out this new www.campus-watch.org site, a blacklist of critics of Israel in Academia.
This is getting very ugly. McCarthystein, anyone?
Regards,
Alan Cabal www.nypress.com
And Rhonda Neugebauer, Bibliographer, can be reached at e-mail: rhondan@citrus.ucr.edu
I always wanted to be a Bibliographer.
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If and when that happens, I assure you that I, personally and at no small risk to my own person, will see to it that the righteous Jews here in the U.S.A. are protected. I am by no means pleased with the idea of this scenario, but you in Israel are deliberately endangering the Jews of the world with your atrocious chauvinism and racism. I will do nothing to protect you Zionists. You are an aberration and a blasphemy against an otherwise noble faith. God damn you.
I'll rely on Cabal to protect me. Eff him.
Besides, they're really literarians", they study the protocols, mein kampf, the international jew and all.
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