Revenge: Now The Show Trials Begin

Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator

Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel (Arik) Sharon is in a rage - we are told - because his mini-war was shown on international television and it looked as stupid as it was.

Sharon wanted (needed) one last, massive war to close out his career as his ‘farewell legacy’, even if it was against his own Jewish people. Since he and his cohort Dov Weisglass had the idea of ‘Disengagement’ to obscure and delay criminal indictments against him and his sons, Sharon has commanded a huge 50,000 men and women propaganda army in their black uniforms, flak jackets and shields. He and his sycophantic collaborators have been shoveling the manure of defamation against the settlers in order to justify his swan song of departure under a cloud of financial corruption accusations.

Having made a fool of himself on international TV, showing the Army and the police against farmers, ordinary families and teenagers whom he demonized as dangerous people, he now needs to justify the ‘lie’. He needs to mount show trials against good Jews with the Leftist Supreme Court lending its ever-present political assistance.

Show trials need tainted evidence and managed news via an accommodating Media. In Israel the Hebrew Press has evolved into actual political parties, dedicated to Leftist ideals and hostile to those called the Right, particularly the settlers.

For example, Ha’aretz had a Special Magazine pre-prepared for the great occasion, dated Monday August 15, 2005 (appearing August 19th), titled: "Goodbye to all that: Ha’aretz writers put disengagement in perspective." 22 writers, from the good, the bad and the ugly (in their words). It seems as if this magazine was paid for with ads from the very Left organizations, like Peace Now, B’tselem - Israeli Info Center for Human Rights in Occupied Territories; Physicians for Human Rights-Israel; Gush Shalom; The Israel Democracy Institute; Mossawa Center - the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel; Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies. I would summarize it for you but, frankly, after reading the first few and skimming the rest, I was too nauseous to continue. Clearly, the Leftist Press joined the Arab Muslim Palestinians who were dancing in the streets and shooting guns in joy.

When Sharon and his collaborators were first contemplating this self-serving move to make Gaza/Gush Katif ‘Judenrein’ (free of Jews), they knew they could count on the Hebrew Press - except for one: Arutz 7. This Media outlet of radio and TV live programs, hourly news, Torah studies, social services’ self-help, and good old Zionist music, reported factually on every trick used by either the Labor Left under Rabin/Peres and later under Sharon. Therefore, Sharon used the power of his office to raid their offices, close it down and shut it up (even though Arutz 7 was broadcasting from a ship in international waters, which was very expensive). Now you can read Arutz 7 daily by Email and Internet. But, the truth could not be allowed to be told, in anticipation of what Sharon, Weisglass, Ehud Olmert, etc. were about to pull off. He also arranged to have the principals of the station tried and charged with heavy fines. Dictators cannot tolerate witnesses to their crimes.

When Sharon started his ‘Disengagement’ Scheme, there were those who saw far beyond this move. His motives were recently exposed in a live 7 minute interview on Channel 10 Israel TV with the book "Boomerang", written by 2 Israeli Leftist journalists, showing that Sharon initiated the "Disengagement" because he needed to mislead the public away from the criminal charges of financial corruption against him and his sons.

High ranking Generals and Intelligence officers tried, time and again, to dissuade Sharon from exposing Israel’s Southern Front to what the Arab Muslim Palestinians were already promising to convert into a fully operational base for Global Terrorism. Sharon not only ignored these analyses but managed to fire those who defied his orders to "Shut Up!". Here I mention the much respected Chief of Staff General Moshe (Boogie) Ya’alon and Avi Dichter, head of Security Services (who later reversed his negative position against ‘Disengagement’). Several other high Officers objected but fell into line under the thuggish threats of the "Bulldozer" Sharon. Everyone knew from years past that to defy Sharon meant you were pushed away or pushed out - no matter how close a comrade or friend you had been.

By the way, I first met Sharon during the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the Sinai. He appreciated the faxes he received from me on various ongoing issues. I was proud to call him my friend but now there are empty spaces on my walls where I removed the photos (signed by him) which I had taken on the Sinai and at his farm - with his wife, Lily, his mother and two of his then young sons.

A MAN OF CONSCIENCE & HONOR IS A GRAVE DANGER TO A DICTATORSHIP

Others saw far beyond the loss of their homes, their farm, a life-style of pioneering and Torah study. One such man, Col. (Res.) Moshe Leshem saw the coming ‘Disengagement’ as, not only a tragedy for the Jews of Gush Katif and Northern Samaria but a most serious danger to the whole Jewish State of Israel and the Jewish people all over the world. Unlike the General Staff who similarly saw the Sharon Plan as a clear and present danger for the nation, Leshem was retired and could not be pressured to fall into line. He is a former officer who loves the Jewish Land and has a deep admiration for the pioneering settlers who worked their Land from barren to bountiful. They invented and developed the high technology of growing bug-free produce in the sand inside huge greenhouses...a large financial boon that Sharon is throwing away.

Col. Moshe Leshem roamed Israel to build support for resisting the idea of uprooting and evacuating Jews from their lands so that hostile Arab Muslims could take the Jewish Land and all that the Jews had developed. He created the organization "Gamla Shall Not Fall Again" as a testament to Jewish/Zionist Solidarity. Leshem observed that the Arabs remained hostile, regardless of the Israeli efforts to make peace. Leshem, like the Generals, watched the secret Oslo Accords fail and all the casualties that followed. Since Oslo was signed on the White House lawn September 13, 1993, some 1700 Israelis have been murdered (including at least 48 Americans) with hundreds of thousands wounded - many maimed for life.

As an old timer in the ways that corrupt governments maneuvered the people with half lies, full lies, political bribes, etc., Leshem understood exactly what Sharon and his collaborators were manipulating. Where once Sharon called the settlers "Heroes" and "Pioneers" and "the best of the Nation", he then switched to join Peres and the Leftist ideology. Suddenly, settlers were impediments to peace. Suddenly, the Leftist Media found Sharon a man they could support, where just a short time ago he was their prototypical monster, proven crook, confirmed liar who could not be trusted. But now, he was the driving force to push the settlers off the Land so the Muslim Arab Palestinians could take over. Here the World Media, who wrote hateful things about the Jewish Nation, found a new (although temporary) champion who reflected their thoughts. Col. Leshem now joins the list of Prisoners of Conscience - like Natan Sharansky, Ida Nudel, and others.

Col. Leshem understood very well that gifting Gaza to the Arab Palestinians would not only make Gaza the key operational base for Global Terror but, they would cascade into Judea and Samaria, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Jordan Valley immediately. Leshem was correct as we hear from Hamas, PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and other Terror leaders, saying that Gaza was first, Judea and Samaria next, followed by Jerusalem But, even Jerusalem was not their final goal. They claim ALL of Israel from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

It was this awareness that forced Col. Leshem to resist to the last moment in Kfar Darom. There we saw him on television, (Israel TV, FOX NEWS and CNN) standing tall, holding a huge Israeli flag with the orange Gush Katif ribbon. He was making his last stand (and a symbolic last stand for the rest of those who would sustain, honor and secure the Jewish People and the Jewish State). There he was for hours until the sun set and a full moon arose, defending the Jewish State of Israel on the synagogue roof, along with young people resisting removal from their Land that lives in their souls with their faith and belief in their Jewish religion. Granted, the young people were defending the Land and that community but, perhaps unknown to them they were in for a far bigger fight to come. Leshem knew that and did his best to lead them with guts, warmth and calming good sense. He led a perfect demonstration - with great spirit and courage but without violence. Now he and his young followers are accused of violence, were arrested, were soaked with the IDF water cannon (loaded with paint as well as water), forced to remain handcuffed in wet clothes for the night. And they are threatened by Sharon with retribution, vengeance, long prison terms and the threat to NOT be allowed to enlist in the Israeli Army.

Now Sharon, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, in a rage of frustration of having been exposed internationally in such a blatant folly want show trials, to prove that ‘deporting Jews was a good idea’. But, their proof is hard to come by as Katyusha Rockets are starting to rain down in the far south in Aqaba, Jordan and Eilat. Hamas has stated blatantly they will now begin moving heavy missiles and explosives into the ‘West Bank’ to hit Tel Aviv because they know for sure that Terror works, Terror pays and Sharon has proved that Terror works for the Arab Muslims.

In the meantime, Col. Leshem is in prison, along with the many young people who resisted being uprooted and deported. The pre-show trial propaganda is already pouring out of the Sharon disinformation machine. Even now the dis-proven incident that acid was being thrown on the soldiers/police is being broadcast by the Leftist Media as if it really was acid and not the crude olive oil that the medics founds on their uniforms. This oil can irritate the skin, however, all but 2 of the 62 soldiers and police were released from hospital. The two had allergic reactions to the chemicals.

Some say that the soldiers were not armed. However, it appeared as if they were thoroughly armored with their bodies covered in body armor, flak jackets, shields, helmets and visors. They were armed with a water cannon that shot violently up at the kids on the roof with water and with paint. One component of paint is paint thinner. This smells like turpentine which is what was described by the Fox News commentator Jennifer Griffin. The youths had forked sticks to push off the soldiers’ ascending ladders; they threw eggs, sand, vegetable oil, and used spray cans that covered with white foam those soldiers that reached the roof (like they do on Yom Hatzmaut).

As the sun set and the moon ascended over them, the soldiers and settlers sang (or prayed) arm in arm for a while, until the 12 hour standoff and the three hour siege ended.

I must give praise to most of the soldiers who reacted with great calm to all the harmless materials and, no doubt, angry language thrown at them. They almost seemed to have been tranquillized. Many of them (men and women) cried with the men, women and children they were carrying away. They know they were carrying out unethical and anti-Jewish orders. They and the nation will long live with "Sharon’s War Against the Innocent Settlers" for all of their lives.

Now it is imperative to Sharon’s long-term plans to evacuate Judea and Samaria, as demanded immediately!!! by President Bush and Secretary Rice. Sharon must imprison those who see through their schemes and resist. Moshe Leshem may be a target for Sharon’s rage via the Leftist Courts that Shame the nation.

I will soon be writing more about the coming show-trials of Jews and, no doubt, will include more on what Sharon is doing to his own people.

The de-Judification of the Jewish nation has always been a high priority of the Leftist secular Jews who believe that, if the Jewish nation of Israel was not so Jewish, the Arab Muslims and the Europeans might find them 'acceptable'.

This latest effort to de-Judaize the State started well before Oslo, when PM Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres met with Yassir Arafat (illegally in the early 1980s) to plan the evacuation of Jews from all the 'West Bank’. That plan failed at that time but, it was always 'in preparation' as Peres and Yossi Beilin created the secret Oslo calamity which totally failed, accompanied by Terror and lots of dead and seriously injured Jews. It should have died then but, Sharon, always linked to Peres at the hip, morphed into Phase III that he euphemistically called "Disengagement". It was actually Uprooting, Evacuating, Deporting, Dismantling and Destroying the Jewish Creation of the Jewish State.

This is what the Generals saw and failed the people in their silence and their desire to stay on their jobs. This is what the Members of Knesset saw but failed to stop in order to keep their seats and their perks.

This, too, is what Col. Moshe Leshem saw and did his best to save the nation from what will soon be called ‘Intifada 3'.

In closing, I note that the arch terrorist Mohammed Dahlan exposed a secret deal between the Arab Muslim Palestinian Terrorists and Sharon wherein Sharon agreed to allow into Israel 50,000 selected Palestinians ‘cum’ Terrorists as another of his infamous gestures. They are euphemistically called "grooms" - to be married to the 72 virgins after they blow up themselves and their Israeli victims.

I would suggest you tell Sharon and his gaggle of collaborators including Mofaz, Olmert, Peres, Attorney General Mazuz and the Leftist Supreme Court under Chief Justice Aharon Barak what you think of their attempt to destroy the Jewish State and of their ‘show trials’.

If you can, please translate this into Hebrew and forward to the Sharon Cabinet, the Knesset and the Media.

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