Some Truth About Israel From Caroline Glick and Latma's Tribal Update

Caroline Glick's article this week is about Arab integration in Israeli society vs the NGO's, something the Left claims isn't happening.

A poll of Arab youth carried out in late 2007 made clear how widespread this integrationist impulse has become. Seventy-five percent of Arab youth aged 16 to 22 supported voluntary national service.

And yet, despite these sentiments and developments, Arab Israelis who seek to integrate into Israeli society and reject the separatist messages of their political leaders are forced to contend with extraordinary social pressures and even coercion to prevent them from acting in accordance with their wishes.

A study completed this week by Im Tirtzu exposes the vast array of NGOs generously funded by the supposedly pro-Israel New Israel Fund as well as by foreign governments which are running a campaign to oppose Cpl. Joseph and her comrades - Arabs and Jews alike. Since 1999, these groups have been conducting a campaign to undermine Arab integration into Israeli society specifically and to demoralize and reduce the social standing of those who serve in the IDF, national service and IDF reserves generally. The campaign is being carried out on a dual track of discouraging Israeli Arabs from serving in the IDF or national service, and of opposing government benefits to IDF veterans, reservists and those who undertook national service by claiming that these benefits unjustly discriminate against Israeli Arabs.

And Latma's Tribal Update exposes the "cool," calm, quiet in Arab villages, sings for Jerusalem and Bibi's priorities.

Chodesh Sivan Tov, A Good Month of Sivan to You

and Shabbat Shalom!

The New Israel Fund and Those "Red Lines"

In the aftermath of the Im Tirtzu expose` of the New Israel Fund, the NGO Monitor is calling on the New Israel Fund to establish "red lines" and stop funding dangerous groups which delegitimize Israel.  This may sound good in principle, but it's like trying to make ice cream healthy, low far, low calorie and no artificial stuff.  Those extreme Leftist groups that the NIF support are the bedrock of their business.

Call me a paranoid conspiracy freak, but I'm pretty sure that the New Israel Fund was established to promote those Left wing advocacy groups, and the rest of their admittedly professional and excellent work is just a fig leaf to cover up their true agenda.

McCarthyism and Israel's Left

As usual, when caught in one of their own traps the Left distort history and attack those telling the truth.  Im Tirtzu's expose` on the dangerous, anti-Jewish rights in Israel and hypocritical civil rights for Arabs not Jews agenda of the foreign funded New Israel Fund calling it all McCarthyism:

(IsraelNN.com) Minister of Welfare and Social Services Yitzchak Herzog (Labor) defended the New Israel Fund against accusations that it helps Israel's enemies besmirch Israel. The fund, which disburses about $20 million every year, is under heavy fire for allegedly financing the Israeli organizations that provided 92 percent of the anti-Israeli statements to the the Goldstone committee.



"The pile-up on the New Israel Fund is McCarthyism,” the Labor minister said, referring to the 1950's-era pursuit of Communists in the United States. (complete article)

It's from Herzog's Leftist friends we see McCarthyism against the Land of Israel Right, as many others have already commented.  Herzog is far from objective when it comes to the New Israel Fund.  Using "McCarthyism" as "hammer," the knee jerk Leftists automatically come out swinging against those telling the truth.  Im Tirtzu has exposed the New Israel Fund for what it is , a front group, a highly professional organization which helped totally apolitical organizations to mask their true agenda.

McCarthy's extremism against the American Left went too far, blacklisting even those innocently caught up in the public witch-hunts.  In Israel those methods are used against the Right, the pro-Jewish rights in the Land of Israel.  How ironic.