Below is an ad that was in Haaretz lately for the Ultimate Mission to Israel. The trip is a red-meat propaganda trip of a retro-masculine character–"live exhibition of penetration raids in Arab territory"– pitched to American professionals, accountants, doctors, lawyers. The fascination is not just the disgusting events–"observe a trial of Hamas terrorists in an IDF military court"–but that the ad is pitched to wealthy American Jews, and also apparently, the Modern Orthodox. Those groups overlap in the Status Quo Lobby, as it’s called, AIPAC. These are Jews who are deeply enmeshed in the American political process: note the meetings with senior Cabinet officials and the emphasis on Israel’s "struggle for survival." The ad follows the jump.
Mission Highlights
- Briefings by Mossad officials and commanders of the Shin Bet.
- Briefing by officers in the IDF Intelligence and Operations branches.
- Inside tour of the IAF unit who carries out targeted killings.
- Live exhibition of penetration raids in Arab territory.
- Observe a trial of Hamas terrorists in an IDF military court.
- First hand tours of the Lebanese front-line military positions and the Gaza border check-points.
- Inside tour of the controversial Security Fence and secret intelligence bases.
- Meeting Israel’s Arab agents who infiltrate the terrorist groups and provide real-time intelligence.
- Briefing by Israel’s war heros who saved the country.
- Meetings with senior Cabinet Ministers and other key policymakers.
- Small airplane tour of the Galilee, Jeep rides in the Golan heights, water activities on Lake Kinneret, a cook-out barbecue and a Shabbat enjoying the rich religious and historic wonders of Jerusalem’s Old City.
- Five-star accommodations at the Sheraton Plaza Jerusalem (Glatt Kosher);
- Three meals a day (all Kosher);
- Luxury bus transportation and knowledgeable tour guide;
- A dedicated Executive Communications Center at the hotel;
- Personal cell phone for each participant.
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Israeli ad pitched to Christian Zionists: “What Christian-Zionists Do When They Go to Israel”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI5jpxhyfxI
Professor Finkelstein has posted a great response to this ad:
A once-in-a-lifetime experience: THE ULTIMATE MISSION TO DEUTSCHLAND
Experience a dynamic and intensive eight day exploration of Nazi Germany’s struggle for Lebensraum and against the Judeo-Bolshevk conspiracy in Europe today: “a military, humanitarian, historical, judicial, religious, and political reality check.”
Mission Highlights
* Briefings by the Gestapo and commanders of the Wehrmacht
* Inside tour of the SS unit that carries out extermination of Judeo-Bolsheviks
* Live exhibition of heroic SS units battling Jewish scum in Warsaw Ghetto.
* Observe a trial of Jewish terrorists in a Nazi military court.
* First hand tours of the Russian front-line military positions and the Polish border
check-points.
* Inside tour of the controversial Wall around Warsaw and secret bases of Jewish collaborator.
* Meeting Germany’s Kapo collaborator agents who infiltrate the Jewish terrorist groups and provide real-time intelligence.
* Briefing by Germany’s war heroes who saved the country from Jewish terrorists in Warsaw.
* Meetings with senior Nazi Ministers and other key policymakers.
* Small airplane tour of the Galilee, Jeep rides in the Golan heights, water activities
on Lake Kinneret, a cook-out barbecue and a Shabbat enjoying the rich religious and historic wonders of Jerusalem’s Old City.
Finkelstein has his subject, of course, but wouldn’t a spoof involving former regimes in Argentina or Chile have been more immediate and effective than the “atomic bomb” of anti-hasbara?
A spoof involving regimes in Argentina or Chile would probably not be as effective nor as applicable since there is no evidence that the majority of Argentinians or Chileans backed their governments in such numbers as did the Germans in Nazi Germany and for a far longer period the majority of Jews in Israel.
Moreover, those persecuted in Argentina and Chile were their own fellow citizens, not the “subhuman other” who have been the Nazis’ and Israel’s victims.
Neither analogy is perfect, but one is “overkill” and closes minds. The regimes in Argentina and Cile could have provided ample material for such a spoof “mission”, and might actually have made someone think about the grotesqueness of such a trip and the culture behind it.
Professor Finkelstein? Does now have a teaching position?
Julian,
(1) This is a European tradition to accord a person his status, like we do with Presidents past, and ex-VPs, and ex-Governors.
(2) Lawyers are referred to in Europe as Dr., just BTW.
(3) Once a Professor, always a Professor.
Israel sure knows how to paclkage nonsense (emphasis mine):
Experience a dynamic and intensive eight day exploration of Israel’s struggle for survival and security in the Middle East today: “a military, humanitarian, historical, judicial, religious, and political reality check
Whoever put those phrases in the same paragraph sure has a good sense of humor.
Wow. I should have done my trips to Israel with this bunch, instead of staying in cheap pension houses in the Ayrab part of town. I could have met with senior IDF officers, and their assassination squads, face to face, instead of running down the street, and hiding to avoid their junior goons.
Wow. And I could have had a cook-out barbecue in the Old City, instead of a couple of kebabs outside a coffee house.
Wow. And I could have met some genuine Ayrab collaborators, not the miserable anti-Israelis I met on my own. I would have my own cellphone, too, so I could take photos of them and send them to all my friends.
Wow. I’d love to be briefed by Israel’s war heroes (who saved the country), although most who survived ‘67 and ‘73 must be zombies by now. And perhaps I could have taken photos of them, too, and sent them to my friends
Wow. What fun it would be to take a small plane ride over the Galilee (and probably, parts of Lebanon, as well, and a jeep ride over the occupied Golan. (Haven’t the great Israelis fixed the roads there yet, after 40+ years of occupation?)
I imagine that this is the standard trip set up for US Congressmen, who take fully-paid junkets to Israel, and return full of fire, ready to vote down anything that might bring peace to Palestine.
Wow. What fun it would be to be a US Congressman, getting all this for free.
And with all that heavy programme, I’d never have had to meet a normal Palestinian (Israeli or Arab) in the street.
…instead of a couple of kebabs outside a coffee house.
They were kosher, though. Right?
Of course they were. Pure lamb. Muslims don’t go for pork either.
Do you guys know if i can shoot at Arab terrorists? will IDF provide the bullets? Also can i write some peaceful words for Arabs terrorists on the rockets IDF heroes drop on them?
When i started reading this article i thought it was a joke!!!!
It’s like they are going on a safari.
Just utterly disgusting.
US taxpayers subsidize tours of Israelo-disneyland; all that’s missing is tossing the Christians, er, Arabs, to the lions.
Soon, US taxpayers will also subsidize tours to Orlando’s Disneyland ($8billion for a hi-speed rail from Tampa to Orlando), in a bid to nail down the influential Jewish vote in Florida’s I4 corridor.
Actually, I might have preferred a trip that included a small venture in a light aeroplane (or military helicopter) over Gaza, with my very own chance to bag a few Pals of my own. The planes must be equipped with hunting rifles?
I might even have taken the optional extension week, with guided Tours of the West Bank and Gaza by vetted Fatah/Hamas collaborator/minders. Then I could have had even more chances to bag a few Pals of my own. And, of course, I would have cellphone photos of my minders to send to all my friends.
Psychopathic god US taxpayers do not subsidize tours of Israelo-disneyland. Some of the $3 billion per year that Americans pay to Israel comes back via political contributions through American Jews, and that money subsidizes the junkets, via various Congressional accounts, from which junketing Congressmen can claim any job-related expenses they want.
Obviously, a trip to Israel to support the US’ greatest ally in the Middle East is such a justifiable expense
20+ Congressmen went to Israel last summer, during the recess.
If the trip is free, so much the better. It wouldn’t surprise me if US Congressmen were accepting free trips, and keeping all the invoices, to submit these again for an expenses bonus.
Otherwise, who the hell wants to spend 8 whole days in a shitty little Levantine country?
Which means the cash is officially in a separate expenses account, not directly subsidized by American taxpayers, although it may appear to be.
You sucker American taxpayers are probably not subsidizing, but paying twice over for tours of Israelo-disneyland.
“Otherwise, who the hell wants to spend 8 whole days in a shitty little Levantine country?”
Obviously a lot of people. Much better than those 3rd world pest holes you seem to think are so wonderful.
Well, 56 US congressmen, for a start, enjoyed Israel (maybe) but they probably spent all their time, when they weren’t cruising around in luxury, at their luxury hotel. In the bar.
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Don’t talk to me about 3rd world pest holes.
Do you have a constant temperature, in February, of 76F in the morning and 83F right now, at 8:45pm?
Go and freeze your balls off, if you have any
They’ve got a tour just for Julians, too. “Visit Hebron and throw stones at the Arab kids trying to go to school.”
“They’ve got a tour just for Julians, too.”
He doesn’t even have the courage to go leave his nasty comments on a Palestinian website, no, he imposes his sickness on us here.
He ain’t going to, as it was once put to me, “goin’ to bus’ na’ar a grape”
I would personally like to thank all of the US citizens on this list for making such trips possible. According to the organisers’ (Shurat Hadin) website, donations from the US are tax-deductible.
If anyone would like a truly Orwellian experience, I suggest checking out the website (and the free ads … I mean entries, on the group and its founder, at Wiki), where you’ll find gems like the following:
Or this one, from Wiki:
Enjoy. After all, you paid for it.
By the way, “Shurat Hadin” means “Letter of the Law” – an expression generally cited in Jewish religious law (and modern Israeli law) when leniency is recommended or required, i.e. “the letter of the law is x but one should adopt the more lenient practice y”.
The name alone implies boundless arrogance and belligerence, and the group does not disappoint.
In the USA legal circles, the contrary to “the letter of the law” is “the spirit of the law.”
The former being a narrow, literal construction; the latter, a wide, liberal construction of the applicable word(s).
Interesting comment Citizen. I think the concepts are analogous although not identical, the sense of judicial decisions “beyond the letter of the law” being to apply general principles and values that might otherwise be violated by blind adherence to the letter (lit. “line”) of the law in a given case.
Seems like they are very similar. Analogous too here in the USA is the “strict construction” versus “liberal construction” of the US Constitution. For example, the right of privacy was not found literally spelled out in the Constitution, but
it was found in its “penumbra.”
Hence, e.g., we Americans now have the constitutional right to fuck anybody we want behind closed doors–legislation against interracial sex is now void.
OTH, how far our right to own and carry guns extends is an on-going debate and handled differently across the land.
“Hence, e.g., we Americans now have the constitutional right to fuck anybody we want behind closed doors–legislation against interracial sex is now void.
OTH, how far our right to own and carry guns extends is an on-going debate and handled differently across the land.”
My God, how much legal jiggery-pokery can this country stand? I’m with you, all the way Citizen! If two people of different “races” have sex behind closed doors, the entire country could collapse.
But carrying loaded guns? Now how on earth could that hurt anybody?
At any rate, I’m glad to know you are against misceganation. Why, that’ll drag us down into the fire and brimstone much faster than guns ever will!
I mean, weren’t something like 40,000 people last year in the US killed or wounded by inter-racial sex?
Sounds luike a great group. i will probably send them a contribution.
Julian you really are an asshole.
Send in enough, and they may let you shoot your own Arab when you go.
Is it my immagination, or is the hasbara abuse of examples from the US Civil Rights movement growing? Settlers as Rosa Parks, Hebron Palestinians as Springfield whites (Hebron settlers as blacks), racist segregationist lawyers as the Southern Poverty Law Center (with the Palestinians playing the role of the KKK). Did somebody put it on this month’s Zionist Talking Points Newsletter?
Zionists like Neo-Cons lack imagination. So, instead of coming up with their own analogies, they steal such ideas from the BDS movement and the like.
No, it’s not your imagination. It’s just a complete propaganda reversal of whatever you’ve ever thought.
Wait for the YouTube release (probably next week) of Jewish settlers in Hebron singing ‘We Shall Overcome’.
“Jewish settlers in Hebron singing ‘We Shall Overcome’”
Already happened.
“Jewish settlers in Hebron singing ‘We Shall Overcome’”
Already happened.
Yeah, but it loses something in the translation.
Shmuel, it’s not your imagination. It’s called co-opting, while others are taking the Obama-is-a-Kushi tactic to harden rich retired Colorado Jews so they’ll send more money.
We also pay for those Caterpillar bulldozers that erase Palestinian homes from the face of the earth–you know those like the one that erased Rachel Corrie? Our courts cannot even entertain the Corrie case because they say it’s a “political question.” Executive Branch privilege. You see, our government reimburses the IDF for every bulldozer it buys from Caterpillar. Further, it does not matter that Caterpillar is aware its product is used to further war crimes–no Krupp analogy here.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9408.shtml
Enjoy.
Not only do you get all the goodies listed, but you will also get nightly visits from lucious young female hasbara agents right there in your hotel room.
Don’t worry about the cameras in the AC grill. They are just security to protect you from Arab terrorists.
I’ve never had the luck to find a luscious female hasbara agent in my hotel room, although I’ve had several luscious callers to my hotel rooms that had no hasbara objectives in mind.
Mordechai Vanunu suffered from such a trick, and spent 18 years in jail, from 1986-2004, as a result. He is apparently back there now or under house arrest, because he has a Norwegian girlfriend
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/6905081/Mordechai-Vanunu-arrested-for-having-contact-with-foreign-agents-in-Israel.html
The price of pork keeps going up for us average Americans, especially if you want those
delicious butterfly pork chops. Pan fry them. They hit the spot on buttered white bread, well salted. We be happy little simpletons. Our daughters giggle and strip for Girls Gone Wild.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0126/p09s01-coop.html
Did you know a congressional trip to Gaza is a trip to Israel?
http://www.legistorm.com/trip_browse_by_destination/index/country/28.html
So are Ramallah, Jericho and Bethlehem.
Last summer saw the largest group of US congress people to take the AIPAC trip to Israel–13% of the entire US House went, rather than ponder the proposed bill
plan on the Hill addressing health care for the entire nation.
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/09/02/the-best-congress-aipac-can-buy/
Thank yew.
There is a small problem with this post; the trip was advertised a year ago, by Shurat Hadin, the so-called Israel Law Center, for:
An unparalleled and unprecedented Israeli reality-check at June 8 – 15, 2009 in Jerusalem: etc etc.
While there very well may be a similar ‘Mission’ organised this year (2010 in case you’ve forgotten), there doesn’t seem to be any advance advertising for it.
Philip Weiss could very well have refrained from changing the date by a year in his summary. That has changed a truthful blog to yet another crap one.
What are you talking about, RP? Phil was referring to this trip:
http://www.israellawcenter.org/Missions-general-information.html
with the precise dates he cites: Monday, June 21 – Monday, June 28, 2010
The trip will be repeated this year–Phil is correct–here’s the advance ad for it:
http://www.israellawcenter.org/Missions-general-information.html
Sorry. Missed the reference to the original Shurat Hadin promotion highlighted in Philip Weiss’ presentation:
http://www.israellawcenter.org/The-Ultimate-Mission-to-Israel.html
So it seems they will be scheduling trials of “Hamas terrorists” just to entertain this group. I suppose this will also involve scheduling “penetration raids” to kill a few Arabs, just for their amusement. “Cutting the grass,” just for fun.
You don’t want to mess with a lawyers’ group. You could get sued for false advertising!
Let’s keep those bald cocks penetrating those towel-heads! Support your local volunteer GI families–here, hey are asking for clothing, put your old stuff in a bag at the driveway curb to support impoverished American GI families. Don’t worry, the VVA truck will not enter the gated communities of American Jews.
So it seems they will be scheduling trials of “Hamas terrorists” just to entertain this group.
At least those who get tried in a show trial will actual get their day in court as opposed to other Palestinians, including children who are summarily thrown in prison with no recourse whatsoever.
I smell irony.
So what happened with last years trip? Did it come off? How did it go? Any testimonials from the satisfied cutomers. I mean, besides the usual “the food was like poison, and the portions so small” stuff.
Anything about last year’s trip turn up on a blog, or maybe a newsletter on the web?
Had I not misunderstood a very misty photo of the Dome of the Rock, advertising a very low-key Ultimate Mission to Israel, in Haaretz, I would have clicked on it and gone straight to Shurat Hadin’s website currently advertising the junket, as I did today. You can see the ad here: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054836.html
In fact there are two of them on this page, the small one I refer to and a larger, more explicit, animated version.
Apologies for suggesting that you got the dates wrong, but not for suggesting that you feature up-to-date links.
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