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D.C. scribes party with red wine, vinyl, and image of a terrorist

Eli Lake wearing Menachem Begin t-shirt
Eli Lake wearing Menachem Begin t-shirt

Last week Rosie Gray of Buzzfeed tweeted the photograph above of four American journalists partying with red wine and vinyl: (from left) Jamie Kirchick, Eli Lake, Rosie Gray, and Liz Wahl, the RT anchor who resigned on-air.

In the discussion on twitter, lots of folks pointed out that Lake wears a t-shirt with the image of rightwing Israeli PM and terrorist Menachem Begin. Noah Pollak of the Emergency Committee for Israel said he bought it for Lake in Israel. (Neoconservatives look out for one another.)

The terrorist bona fides? Begin (1913-1992) was prime minister of Israel in the 70s and 80s, but during the 1940s he was a leader of the Jewish terrorist group the Irgun. In his book The Revolt, Begin takes credit for two famous massacres of civilians: the bombing of the King David Hotel in July 1946 and the Deir Yassin attack of April 1948.

The King David Hotel bombing killed 91 people, including many British officers and Jewish and Palestinian civilians. Benny Morris, a pro-Israel historian, writes in the book 1948:

“The… explosion, which brought down one of the hotel’s wings, was the single biggest terrorist outrage in the organization’s history. The IZL [Irgun] subsequently claimed that it had given the British ample warning but that they had failed to evacuate the building; the British maintained that no adequate warning had been given.”

In his book The Revolt, Begin explains that he was shocked by the human cost of the massive bombing but attests his innocence of murder because warnings went out– 25 minutes before the bombing.

“[I]t is clear that we did all we could to ensure the early and complete evacuation of the hotel; that the warnings were given and received in time by the authorities; that they had time enough to evacuate the hotel twice over; that somebody, for some dark purpose, or because he had lost his head, or to protect a spurious prestige, ordered that the hotel should not be evacuated.”

In the Deir Yassin case, the Irgun captured a Palestinian village west of Jerusalem in an event that epitomizes the Nakba to this day. Morris says that 100-120 villagers were killed in the assault on the town, and a number of women and girls were raped.

“The conquest of the village was carried out with great cruelty. Whole families–women, old people, children–were killed… Some of the prisoners moved to places of detention, including women and children, were murdered viciously by their captors,” Morris quotes the statement of a Haganah Intelligence Service commander. “The atrocities were condemned by the Jewish Agency, the Haganah command, and the Yishuv’s two chief rabbis,” Morris relates.

Once again, Menachem Begin stated that the victims were warned.

“One of our tenders carrying a loud speaker was stationed at the entrance to the village and it exhorted in Arabic all women, children and aged to leave their houses and to take shelter on the slope of the hill. By giving this humane warning our fighters threw away the element of complete surprise, and thus increased their own risk in the ensuing battle…. Our men were compelled to fight for every house; to overcome the enemy they used large numbers of hand-grenades. And the civilians who had disregarded our warnings, suffered inevitable casualties.”

Begin says many lies were told about Deir Yassin, but that stories of Deir Yassin helped the Jewish forces in the end.

“In the result it helped us. Panic overwhelmed the Arabs of Eretz Israel… [T]he Arabs began to flee in terror, even before they clashed with Jewish forces… [W]hat was invented about Dir Yassin, helped to carve the way to our decisive victories on the battlefield.”

Historian Shira Robinson notes that David Ben-Gurion was thankful to the Irgun for the massacre. He later said, “If we didn’t have Dayr Yasin, we would be a minority in this country.”

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To have Begin on your T-shirt is like to having David Duke on your T-shirt.

Actually, scratch that. That’s an unfair comparison to Duke, who, to my knowledge, has not carried out mass atrocities(not that I doubt that he would if given the chance like Begin).

But once again, the real shock is how a prominent MSM journalist can get away with a T-shirt like this. It proves, once more, that there is an enormous amount of slack given to Jewish racists within our establishment the way there isn’t for any other ethnic group.

Even blacks, whom white liberals agonize over a great deal(sometimes with genuine affection, sometimes for show), aren’t allowed to celebrate people like Jeremiah Wright, who is hardly free of racism, but doesn’t even come close to Begin’s murderous rampages.

Zionism is breaking out these hidden reservoirs of racism inside the American establishment that for a long time were forbidden to trespass, because the only critics in the elites who were capable of doing so were whites, who had their own magnitude of racial baggage and thus bigots inside my community could shield themselves by playing this domestic aspect up(and if need be, just invoke the Holocaust, which was pretty effective for way too long in the post-war era).

In our new multi-ethnic era, these reservoirs are becoming visible and bigots like Lake or Pollak are finally held accountable.

But we should also ask ourselves, how would the reaction be if Lake came with that T-shirt to an establishment party filled with “liberal” Zionists? Would they really protest? Maybe arch their eyebrow at most but most likely not react in horror, which they would if the neocon had come with a picture of Duke or Rev. Wright or Farrakhan on it.

First encountered that image last week (March 19th) in the article by Rania Khalek and Max Blumenthal which revealed a lot of meddling and background support by James Kirchick in the run-up to Liz Wahl’s on-air resignation on RT.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/how_cold_war-hungry_neocons_stage_managed_liz_wahls_resignation_20140319

Of note re Max and Rania’s article is that it seems to be at least part of the basis of an article published Monday in The Tablet, written by Liel Leibovitz, titled Jamie Kirchick for Abe Foxman!

Dear Anti-Defamation League new National Director search committee members,

I am writing to inform you that you may now stop looking. I’ve found your man: the next Abe Foxman must be Jamie Kirchick.

Further down:

Which bring me to Kirchick’s second qualification for the job. This being the 21st Century—the fact is sometimes lost on Jewish organizations—it’s best to give the helm to someone who knows how public discourse unfurls these days. Often, it unfurls online, on Twitter, in interconnected ways that can grow from 140 characters to front-page news within hours. For evidence of Kirchick’s mastery of this new media ninjitsu, google Liz Wahl: by advising the RT anchor to listen to her conscience and quit the benighted broadcasting operation, and by showcasing Wahl’s decision on various platforms soon after she herself announced it on the air, Kirchick delivered a fiery, focused, and proactive campaign.

And you, dear ADL, are going to need more and more of those to thrive. You’re going to need someone who can deliver the fight to the doorsteps of the biased and the vile. [emphasis added]

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/167160/jamie-kirchick-for-abe-Foxman

Lemme see now…

They say they warned the Brits to vacate the hotel. But the Brits didn’t vacate the hotel.

So they bombed it anyway.

And vinyl?

“By giving this humane warning our fighters threw away the element of complete surprise, and thus increased their own risk in the ensuing battle…” Menachem ,war criminal Begin.

How often do we hear this claim that Israel,s brave heroes announce out loud there intention to attack.Is that why they always attack refugee camps circa 2am.

Not one word of truth can be expected from these slime.

Zionism does not do Humane.