Mideast Outpost

Filed under Mideast by Ruth King on March 7, 2018 at 6:53 am no comments To everything there is a season.and we have decided to turn over all future publications of Mideast Outpost to the competent office staff of Americans for a Safe Israel. For close to fifty years, Outpost has provided editorials and articles that evoke the Zionist spirit and ma... ndate of AFSIeven when we stood alone and clung to Kiplings words If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs While others were swooning over Sadat, AFSI stood alone in exposing the content of his overture and in denouncing the Camp David Treaty. Apparently we were the only ones who listened to the actual words of his much-applauded speech in the Knesset. Yes, he had bravely broken Arab taboos in coming to Israel but this is what he said: I hail the Israeli voices that called for the recognition of the Palestinian Peoples rights to achieve and safeguard peace. Here I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that it is no use to refrain from recognizing the Palestinian People and their rights to statehood and rights of return. These are precisely the demands Abbas makes (and Israel rightly rejects): a state and the right to return for the millions of those calling themselves refugees (there are actually only about 30,000 surviving Arab refugees from the 1948 war). Demanding the right of return, whether by Sadat or Abbas, is calling for Israels destruction as a Jewish state. We were pioneers (before CAMERA came along to do an excellent job in this area) in exposing media bias against Israel. In our documentary NBC Goes to Lebanon we used footage from hundreds of broadcasts. We singled out NBC not because it was alone among the networks in its naked bias, but because its coverage of the Lebanon War was the worst. We denounced the fake journalism that produced fake history of the Arab/Israeli conflict long before these terms were in vogue. Moreover, from the outset we opposed the Oslo Accords, which conceded Israels legal, historical and religious claims to ...Read More