Posted: 05 Sep 2011 02:58 AM PDT

Yoel Meltzer
yoelmeltzer.com
04 September ’11

http://yoelmeltzer.com/deja-vu-in-israel/

Like many people who live in Israel, I have various thoughts concerning the ongoing social protests. While some of these were recorded in “Reflections on the Protests”, the one question that remains unanswered is “Who is providing the massive organizational and logistical support, as well as the enormous funding, for the ongoing protests throughout the country?” These things don’t just “happen” without lots and lots of help.

Moreover, the warm embrace of the protestors by the predominantly left-wing Israeli media, the same media which vilified many of the protestors of the Gaza Disengagement a few years back, makes the whole thing appear a bit suspicious. This does not mean to suggest that there isn’t a problem in Israel, since there is. However, the unanswered questions and the support of the media simply strengthen the feeling that there is more to this than meets the eye.

It appears that some of the details are finally coming to light. According to a lengthy investigative report from Kalman Libeskind, a well-known Israeli journalist who writes for the Maariv newspaper, the protest movements were planned back in March by democratic strategist Stanley Greenberg together with similar left-leaning Israeli counterparts in order to remove the Israeli right from power.

This group, the same bunch that helped bring Ehud Barak to power in place of Benjamin Netanyahu back in 1999, realized that on a platform of security, always the hottest election issue in Israel, the Israeli political left simply has no chance of replacing the right. Nearly twenty years of the Oslo process and the naïve attempts of land for peace have exposed the policies of the left as nothing less than disastrous.
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