Who Is Sending What Message?

Finkelstein, Blair, and Amayreh

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

In 2003 the pattern of the killing and shooting of Rachel Corrie, Brian Avery, and Tom Hurndall indicated that someone within the Zionist power elite was trying to send a message and to determine the boundaries of action against foreign critics.

 

From following the Hebrew news media, I never had the impression that the Israeli government considered the Palestine (or International) Solidarity Movement (PSM/ISM)more than a nuisance -- at least until two British Muslims were inspired by the ISM martyrs to undertake their own suicide attacks on Israeli targets.

 

Yet, well before any of the deaths, I was receiving all sorts of literature from Jewish organizations like Hillel and the ADL about the danger of PSM/ISM and the threat represented especially by Huwaida Arraf. Huwaida seems to have particularly enraged Edgar Bronfman possibly because she is a Palestinian shikse, who has seduced a nice Jewish boy.

 

In the past week there was an interesting juxtaposition of the deportation of Norman Finkelstein, of the denial of a visa to Khaled Amayreh, and of the near shooting down of Tony Blair's airplane.

 

[See Norman Finkelstein deported from Israel - Israel News, Ynetnews, Finkelstein and Me, and Israeli warplanes almost shoot down Tony Blair's plane - Haaretz ....]

 

Even though Philip Weiss, Jerry Haber, and Richard Silverstein have all commented on Finkelstein's experience, there has been no discussion of a pattern with the partial exception of Amayreh's discussion of his own personal situation.

 

[See Haber Gets It Right Re Finkelstein, Finkelstein's Deportation and the Reaction of Progressive Jews, and Finkelstein to Shin Bet: Osama Sent Me.]

 

While Finkelstein, Amayreh, and Blair are minor irritants from the standpoint of the Israeli government, not only has Finkelstein made a raging enemy of Dershowitz, who is a big player in the Israel Lobby or Judonia (as I prefer), but important deep-pocket Jewish supporters have also been griping that Blair has taken his mission on behalf of Israeli-Palestinian peace far too seriously.

 

Amayreh may be less well known off the Internet, but he is an articulate US-educated Palestinian Islamic activist, who communicates well with Americans. The experience of Tariq Ramadan indicates that a large segment of the Neocon policy makers will attempt at all costs to prevent the participation of such people in the local American discussion about US ME policy.

 

The events in 2003 and today in 2008 make the most sense if  the Israeli government is reacting more to the concerns of the hyperwealthy international Zionist political economic elite than to any pressing Israeli political or security issue.

 

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