Prominent Israeli Official Calls for Boycott of Airbnb

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Prominent Israeli
The ‘Occupied
Official Calls for Territories’ Still
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Boycott of Airbnb
Airbnb
BY BEN COHEN
Travelers looking for a vacation on the wrong side of
an internationally-recognized “Green Line” needn’t fret
now that global rentals agency Airbnb is boycotting proper-
ties in Israeli communities in the West Bank — they can
use Airbnb’s services in the “Turkish Republic of Northern
Cyprus” instead.
A Tuesday morning search of Airbnb’s listings for a
last-minute Thanksgiving holiday vacation showed the
A general view shows a road leading
to the Israeli settlement of Dolev in
the West Bank, Feb. 23, 2016. Photo:
Reuters / Baz Ratner / File
A border wall and barbed wire fence dividing the Greek and
BY ALGEMEINER apartments in Turkish occupied Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party Turkish-occupied areas of Nicosia in Cyprus. Photo: Reuters/
Cyprus, in Moroccan occupied — called Airbnb’s decision “discrim- Neil Hall.
STAFF & AGENCIES
Sahara, not in Tibet or the Crimea,” inatory,” and he ordered ministry availability of more than 1,000 apartments and villas in
A prominent Israeli official Michael Oren — a Kulanu MK staff to formulate a plan to limit the Northern Cyprus — a Greek territory invaded and occupied
is calling for a boycott of Airbnb and deputy minister in the Prime company’s activities in Israel. by Turkey in July 1974, in a brutal war inflicted by Ankara on
after the home-renting company Minister’s Office who served as Strategic Affairs Minister Greek and native Turkish Cypriots alike.
announced on Monday it would Israel’s envoy in Washington, Gilad Erdan — also a Likud More than 150,000 Greek Cypriots were driven from
remove listings in West Bank DC, from 2009-2013 — tweeted. member — described Airbnb’s their homes during ethnic cleansing operations carried out
settlements. “Airbnb’s policy is the very defini- move as “submission to the anti- by Turkish forces. Hundreds of Greek women were raped
“Airbnb blacklists Jewish tion of anti-Semitism. No one Semitic BDS organizations,” and by Turkish soldiers, in what one Greek writer called “one
apartments in Judea and Samaria should use its services.” he charged it was motivated by of the darkest and most agonizingly painful aspects” of the
Tourism Minister Yariv Levin “political considerations rather
— not Palestinian apartments, not Continued on Page A3
— a member of Prime Minister
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Opinion
Kentucky and Other States Take a Stand Against BDS
and Discrimination
“We will not allow state resources to tism” lightly. There is plenty
benefit entities that intentionally engage of legitimate criticism to be
JACOB MILLNER in discriminatory practices to harm the directed against Israel, her
JERUSALEM sovereignty and economic prosperity of government, and her policies.
any ally nation,” Kentucky Governor Matt However, the singling out of
Bevin said upon signing the latest directive. the lone Jewish state for divest-
“Today’s executive order makes it clear that ment and sanctions under the
Kentucky condemns the BDS movement guise of “opposing occupa-
Discrimination is wrong. That’s why and that we stand shoulder-to-shoulder tion” — while not addressing
states, including Kentucky, are enforcing with our friend, Israel.” the hundreds of other terri-
measures aimed at pushing back against the Governor Bevin’s assessment echoes torial disputes around the
anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions sentiments shared by many of his colleagues world — is a double standard
(BDS) campaign. on the Left and Right. that should not and cannot be
In just three years since Illinois passed Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) wrote tolerated.
the first-in-the-nation anti-boycott legislation in an op-ed published in The Washington French President
in May 2015, 25 other states have followed Post in June 2016, “My order ensures that no Emmanuel Macron echoed
suit, making anti-BDS laws one of the state agency or authority will engage in or this when he stated in July
most successful efforts in recent legislative promote any investment activity that would 2017, “We will never surrender Signs at a pro-BDS protest in New York following the US deci-
memory. further the harmful and discriminatory BDS to the messages of hate; we will sion to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. PhCoatorl:o R Aeullteegrrsi/.
These state measures call out the BDS campaign.” Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) not surrender to anti-Zionism
campaign for what it is: a form of economic stated in May 2017 that he signed an anti-BDS because it is a reinvention of movement, which is aimed at the destruction
warfare, steeped in hate and discrimination, bill because “As Israel’s No. 1 trading partner anti-Semitism.” of Israel.
aimed at the lone Jewish state in the world. in the United States, Texas is proud to reaffirm This followed UN Secretary General Discrimination is wrong and must never
In a nation seemingly divided on every- its support for the people of Israel and we will António Guterres’ remarks from April 2017, in be tolerated. The boycott movement not only
thing, legislatures and governors from New continue to build on our historic partnership. which he noted that, “The denial of the right of seeks to damage to the Jewish state, but also
Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, and Minnesota, all … Anti-Israel policies are anti-Texas policies, the State of Israel to exist is one of the modern the US itself. America is that “shining city
the way to Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and we will not tolerate such actions against forms of anti-Semitism. … [Israel] should be upon the hill.” We are a beacon of freedom,
and many others have forcefully identified an important ally.” treated like any other member state.” liberty, and democracy. We should be proud
BDS as a form of hate. Kentucky is the latest Bevin, Cuomo, and Abbott all understand Why has the effort to pass anti-BDS legis- that our states, including the Commonwealth
addition to states who oppose these boycotts. that boycotting Israel for political purposes lation been successful? Because American of Kentucky, continue to lead the way with
And these states should be applauded. Ameri- is unfair and creates a double standard, state legislators and governors, Democrats sound judgement and moral courage.
cans must not condone taxpayer dollars going which the US State Department has deemed and Republicans alike, as well as our friends Jacob Millner is Midwest regional
to subsidize discrimination. antisemitism. in Europe, all reject the ideology of hate and director and senior policy analyst for The
And I do not use the term “antisemi- discrimination that lies at the heart of the BDS Israel Project.
New York Times Jared-Ivanka-Jews
Story Broke Paper’s Own Rabbi Rule
geous that this erasure still happens at the should have been “Are Jared and Ivanka
the
@nytimes We have something to say, too.” Good For the non-Israeli Jews?”
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Fleischer, Haim Saban, Andy Bachman, Trump for special scrutiny. Ken Kurson, who
e-mail: [email protected] and Morton Klein — exactly one, Leah worked with Kushner at the New York Observer,
Pisar, is a woman. The editor of the wrote on Facebook, “This is disgusting. It is also
or call Forward, Jane Eisner, tweeted, “Somehow probably unprecedented. I challenge the New
718-771-0400 @AmyChozick and @hannah_seligson Senior White House Adviser Ivanka Trump (center) and hus- York Times to produce another example where
did not quote ONE American woman in band Jared Kushner alongside Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu high profile members of any other religion in
and his wife Sara at the opening of the US Embassy in
a long story about American Jews. Outra- Jerusalem. Photo: Reuters/Ronen Zvulun.
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World News
Haley Points Finger at Jordanian MP Who
Iran During UN Session Praised Murder of Seven
Israeli Schoolgirls Feted
BY ALGEMEINER STAFF seizing a pretext to kill civilians,” she said. “You in UK Parliament
also cannot escape the fact that the group
responsible for the rocket attacks — Palestinian
The recent spate of rocket attacks against
Islamic Jihad — is an Iranian supported group.
Israel conducted by Gaza-based Hamas and
The PIJ is yet another terrorist proxy that Iran
Islamic Jihad terrorists was raised at the UN
calls on to stoke violence and instability in the
Security Council on Monday, in the context
region. And these missing facts are crucial.”
of broader remarks by US Ambassador Nikki
Haley accused the Security Council of
Haley on Iran’s continuing malign influence
ignoring other serious threats in the Middle
across the region.
East because of its focus on the Israeli-Pales-
“Yes, Israel launched airstrikes on
tinian dimension.
military posts, weapons depots, and intelli-
“One has in recent months come to the
gence assets in Gaza,” Haley told the Security
doorstep of Europe and the United States —
Council meeting on the Middle East. “But it
that is the continued evidence of increased
did so in response to over 400 rockets and
international terrorist activity by the Iranian
mortars that were fired indiscriminately from
regime,” the ambassador pointed out. “Iranian
Gaza into Israel.”
malign behavior does not just target one
Continued Haley: “Neighborhoods were
country, it targets us all.”
targeted. A bus was bombed by an anti-tank
Haley argued that Tehran’s determina-
missile. Families were forced into bomb
tion to eliminate its “political opponents
shelters to escape the barrage.”
on foreign soil reflect the true nature of the
Haley added that “even if you accept
Iranian regime.”
Hamas’ excuse that it launched its missiles in
Said Haley: “These attacks are precisely
response to an Israeli covert operation, you
the sort of behavior that led the United
cannot escape the fact that the Gaza militants States to reimpose sanctions against Iran on Jordanian MP Dima Tahboub. Photo: YouTube screenshot.
targeted civilians in response.”
“Their actions were not actions of a nation November 5. This was the largest sanctions BY BENJAMIN KERSTEIN anti-Israel sentiments. Most notably, she
exercising self-defense, but of a terrorist group action against Iran ever undertaken by the praised Ahmed Daqamseh, a Jordanian
United States.” A Jordanian Member of Parliament who border guard who slaughtered seven Israeli
hailed the murder of seven Israeli schoolgirls schoolgirls in their early teens in 1997. She
Women’s March Founder in 1997 was feted in the British House of called Daqamseh a “hero” and charged that
Commons last week. the girls had “mocked” Islam and Jordan and
According to The Daily Mail, Dima therefore deserved to be killed.
Calls on Leaders to Quit, Tahboub, a member of the Muslim Brother- “They were not only schoolgirls, they
hood’s Islamic Action Front party in Jordan, were people who mocked our country, who
attended the Women MPs of the World mocked our religion. We regard him as a hero
Citing Antisemitism
Conference, which included the Leader of the because he retaliated to the mockery of the
House Andrea Leadsom and International Israelis,” she said of Daqamseh.
Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt. Exiled Jordanian dissident Mudar
and Bigotry
The event was held on the floor of the Zahran commented, “By hosting Tahboub,
House of Commons and included delegates the British Establishment was either
from more than 100 countries. knowingly or unknowingly endorsing hatred
Tahboub is noted for her ferociously and terrorism.”
BY JNS.ORG march and the latter backing the decision.
Continued from Page A1 Airbnb shows more than 300 rental homes
Groups such as the Zioness Movement
Airbnb. available during the week of Thanksgiving. The
With charges of antisemitism and other applauded Shook’s statement. 1974 invasion. Following the invasion, Turkey even more intrepid traveler can rent a villa in
bigotry against the Women’s March, the “Zioness shares Shook’s sentiment that it consolidated its hold over 40 percent of the the Kurdish city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq —
movement’s founder called on its leaders on is high time for new leadership at a Movement island of Cyprus — but its satellite republic seized by Iranian-backed forces in October
Monday to quit. created to stand in love and solidarity against continues to be regarded by the entire inter- 2017 shortly after it was liberated from ISIS by
“As Founder of the Women’s March, my hate,” the group said in a statement. “Since national community as “occupied territory.” Kurdish Peshmerga.
original vision and intent was to show the our founding in 2017, Zioness has spoken For now, though, residents of Northern Settlements in territories under Israeli
capacity of human beings to stand in solidarity out time and again against the poisonous and Cyprus — including thousands of Turkish control since the 1967 Six-Day War now join
and love against the hateful rhetoric that had deeply hurtful rhetoric and actions of certain “settlers” who moved to the island from Iran, Syria, North Korea and Russian-occupied
become a part of the political landscape in Women’s March leaders.” mainland Turkey after 1974 — can freely Crimea as locations where Airbnb’s services
the US and around the world,” Theresa Shook “Through their action and inaction, advertise their properties on Airbnb. are not available. In the last four of those cases,
wrote in a Facebook post. these leaders have demonized and margin- In the Turkish part of Nicosia — known as however, the company has made no political
“Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda alized members of the Jewish community, the world’s last divided capital because of the criticism of any of these countries, explaining
Sarsour and Carmen Perez of Women’s LBGTQIA community and other groups,” physical, UN-supervised “Green Line” that cuts on its website that Airbnb is “required to
March, Inc. have steered the Movement away they continued. “Their exclusionary behavior the city in half — 78 properties were displayed comply with international regulations that
from its true course,” continued Shook. “I is not only harmful to those of us who have by Airbnb as available for rent between Nov. restrict the use of our site by residents of
have waited, hoping they would right the ship. been feeling alienated—it is harmful to all the 23-30. Further north, in the coastal town of certain countries.”
But they have not. In opposition to our Unity marginalized communities we want to fight Girne, more than 300 properties were shown But in its statement on Monday
Principles, they have allowed anti-Semitism, for. Anyone who cares about the advance- as available, with an equivalent number in confirming that it was banning the use of
anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist ment of social, racial, economic and gender Famagusta — ironically the port city from Airbnb in Israeli settlements, the company
rhetoric to become a part of the platform justice should welcome all committed activ- where the ships of the 2010 “Freedom Flotilla” openly advertised its decision as political,
by their refusal to separate themselves from ists to the fight, not just some.” to the “occupied” Gaza Strip, sponsored by a claiming that “companies should not profit on
groups that espouse these racist, hateful They added: “For our part, Zioness leading Turkish Islamist organization, began lands where people have been displaced.”
beliefs. I call for the current Co-Chairs to step will be organizing a significant presence their journey. A report on Tuesday from the Israeli
down and to let others lead who can restore at the next Women’s March from coast-to- Northern Cyprus is not the only terri- research organization NGO Monitor observed
faith in the Movement and its original intent.” coast, engaging our more than 18 chapters tory widely considered to be “occupied” that “Airbnb faced an intensive multi-year
Sarsour and Mallory have been repeat- and thousands of participants. As part of that is currently listed on Airbnb. A handful attack and threats of being included in the
edly slammed for praising Nation of Islam this work, Zioness will be hosting a series of properties are also available in Western forthcoming UN HRC ‘blacklist,’ boycotts, and
leader Louis Farrakhan, a known antisemite of pre-march ‘teach-ins’ that bring light to Sahara — a former Spanish colony invaded other forms of negative publicity. Indeed, the
whose annual Saviour’s Day was attended in the issues facing Jewish women in a time of by Morocco in 1975 that is considered by the company acknowledged that offering listings
February by Mallory. skyrocketing antisemitism. In Washington, UN to be occupied territory, and is officially in West Bank settlements was not illegal,
Last week, actors Alyssa Milano and D.C., this teach-in will be headed by progres- listed as a “non self-governing territory” by meaning that its decision was the result of
Debra Messing spoke out against antisemitism sive icon Ann Lewis. We will be announcing the global body. In Lhasa, the capital of Tibet political pressure.”
associated with movement, with the former additional leaders organizing these teach-ins — conquered by the Chinese Army in 1950 —
announcing that she will not speak at next year’s in the coming week.”
A4 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2018 .
World News
IDF Says It Thwarted Terror
Attack When It Uncovered Knife
in Pringles Container
BY ALGEMEINER STAFF
The Israeli military said it thwarted a
terror attack near Jerusalem on Monday when
it uncovered a knife concealed in a Pringles
container being held by a woman.
The incident took place at the Qalandiya
checkpoint, north of the Israeli capital.
Antisemitic imagery posted to WhatsApp. Photo: Twitter screenshot.
“An IDF soldier just found this knife….in
German Neo-Nazis Use New a box of @Pringles,” the IDF said in a tweet.
“Our intel says the woman carrying it intended
use it for a stabbing attack. Our soldiers at the
WhatsApp Stickers Option to
Qalandiya security crossing stopped her from
doing so.”
Spread Antisemitic Images “This is why security checks are neces-
sary,” the IDF concluded.
Palestinian terrorists have perpetrated civilians and soldiers in recent years.
hundreds of stabbing attacks against Israeli
BY BENJAMIN KERSTEIN The JFDA has contacted WhatsApp and Continued from Page A2 the Times treated President Obama’s relations
asked the company to stop users from abusing Rabbi Rule with the black community, as, for example, in
German far-right and neo-Nazi groups the new sticker option to disseminate racist any other administration were analyzed for this article by Michael Eric Dyson or this one
are exploiting the text application WhatsApp’s messages. how their behavior reflected on that religion. by Cornel West: “The age of Obama has fallen
new option to create custom stickers in order A WhatsApp spokesman said, “These Creating a different standard for Jews is the tragically short of fulfilling [Martin Luther]
to disseminate antisemitic symbols. anti-Semitic stickers are unacceptable and we definition of anti-Semitism.” A Breitbart article King’s prophetic legacy. Instead of articulating
The German newspaper Deutsche Welle do not want them in WhatsApp. We strongly by Joel Pollak said the Times “Jew-Shames a radical democratic vision and fighting for
reported that the stickers include photo- condemn this hatred.” Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump.” homeowners, workers and poor people in the
graphs, SS “runes,” and images of Hitler. “If users get stickers with illegal content, Believe me, I’m the last one to defend form of mortgage relief, jobs and investment
The Jewish Forum for Democracy and we ask them to report it. We will act accord- the New York Times. If the Times does have in education, infrastructure and housing, the
Against Anti-Semitism (JFDA) discovered ingly against it, even to the extent of blocking a defense on this one, though, it’s that Chris- administration gave us bailouts for banks,
the trend, and tweeted, “Just after WhatsApp the accounts from which they were sent,” he tian members of the Trump administration, record profits for Wall Street and giant budget
makes it possible to create and use stickers, added. The use of Nazi symbolism is illegal in at least, have been subjected to similar, cuts on the backs of the vulnerable.”
right-wing extremists flood their group chats Germany. if perhaps not identical, scrutiny. See, for If the measure of success of Times
with hateful Nazi symbols.” example, the Frank Bruni column on “Mike journalism is “got you to click” — even if it
Pence, Holy Terror.” was a “hate click” — then by that standard, the
On Visit to Golan, IDF Chief Amy Chozick’s book even concludes article seems to have been a success. At this
with a theory about Hillary Clinton wearing writing, it was a solid no. 6 on the Times list of
Praises Efforts to Keep Iran From the color purple for her concession speech most emailed stories.
because “in Methodism, purple is worn during Ira Stoll is a former managing editor of
Advent and Lent, a symbol of penitence. We The Forward and former North American
Establishing Syria Foothold
were watching Saint Hillary.” Or consider how editor of The Jerusalem Post.
Israelis and Palestinians. occupied territories. When evaluating these
US law permits companies like Airbnb types of situations, we will:
BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY what Iran and terror groups desired is the result to engage in business in these territories. At the 1. Recognize that each situation is unique
of high-quality, ongoing operational activity,” same time, many in the global community have and requires a case-by-case approach.
Israel will continue to act to thwart Eizenkot, whose four-year term as chief of staff stated that companies should not do business 2. Consult with a range of experts and our
the transfer of advanced Iranian weaponry will come to a close at the end of December. here because they believe companies should not community of stakeholders.
to Hezbollah, the IDF chief of staff said on In recent years, the IDF is believed to profit on lands where people have been displaced. 3. Assess any potential safety risks for our
Monday during a visit to his country’s border have conducted hundreds of strikes in Syria on Others believe that companies should not hosts and guests.
with Syria. targets tied to Iran and its Lebanon-based, Shi’a withdraw business operations from these areas. 4. Evaluate whether the existence of listings is
Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot — who was proxy Hezbollah — both of which, along with For us, the question centers on the approxi- contributing to existing human suffering.
accompanied on the Golan Heights tour by Russia, have deployed forces in Israel’s north- mately 200 Airbnb listings in Israeli settlements 5. Determine whether the existence of
GOC Northern Command Maj. Gen. Yoel eastern neighbor to bolster the Assad regime. in the West Bank and whether they should be listings in the occupied territory has a
available for rent on our platform. We are most direct connection to the larger dispute in
Strick — also praised Israeli troops for their Amid the ongoing international efforts
certainly not the experts when it comes to the the region.
efforts to prevent the establishment of a to reach a diplomatic resolution to the seven-
historical disputes in this region. Our team has When we applied our decision-making
permanent Iranian military presence across year-old civil war in Syria, Israel’s priority has
wrestled with this issue and we have struggled framework, we concluded that we should
the border in southern Syria. remained to removal of Iran-linked entities
to come up with the right approach. remove listings in Israeli settlements in the
“The fact that their abilities are far from from the country.
In the past, we made clear that we would occupied West Bank that are at the core of the
operate in this area as allowed by law. We did dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.
this because we believe that people-to-people We know that people will disagree with
Continued from Page A1 The left-wing Israeli NGO Peace Now,
Boycott on the other hand, praised Airbnb for “distin- travel has considerable value and we want to this decision and appreciate their perspec-
than business considerations.” guishing between sovereign Israel and the help bring people together in as many places as tive. This is a controversial issue. There are
“I call on the property owners affected occupied territories.” possible around the world. We also explained many strong views as it relates to lands that
by the decision to examine the filing of claims “International companies are interested that going forward we would ask questions, have been the subject of historic and intense
against Airbnb in accordance with the law to in doing business with the State of Israel, but listen to experts, seek out our community for disputes between Israelis and Palestinians
prevent harm to the State of Israel through are unwilling to accept the continued military their thoughts, and continue to learn. in the West Bank. Airbnb has deep respect
a boycott, and I intend to contact the most control of millions of Palestinians,” it said. “If Since then, we spent considerable time for those views. Our hope is that someday
senior political officials in the United States to the government really wants to eliminate BDS speaking to various experts — including those sooner rather than later, a framework is put
examine whether this decision violates legis- — then it will end the occupation.” who have criticized our previous approach in place where the entire global community
lation against boycotts in more than 25 states In a statement published earlier on — about this matter. As a global platform is aligned so there will be a resolution to this
in the United States,” Erdan said. Monday, Airbnb said: operating in 191 countries and regions and historic conflict and a clear path forward for
Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel There are conflicting views regarding more than 81,000 cities, we must consider the everybody to follow. As of today, this is an
(Likud) accused Airbnb of hypocrisy, saying whether companies should be doing impact we have and act responsibly. Accord- aspirational hope. People of goodwill have
the company “operates in the darkest dictator- business in the occupied territories that are ingly, we have developed a framework for been seeking this goal for decades but we
ships in the world and preaches morality to us.” the subject of historical disputes between evaluating how we should treat listings in continue to hope for a durable, lasting peace.
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U.S. News
Kentucky Becomes 26th State to policies targeting the antisemitic
effort to boycott, divest from or
Enact Anti-BDS Measure sanction Israel. We look forward to
advancing similar policies across
the country and will not stop until
the door is shut to BDS in every
state in the union,” said CUFI
Action Fund Chairwoman Sandra
BY JNS.org
Parker.
StandWithUs followed
Jewish and pro-Israel groups applauded the move.
Goldberg and CUFI’s applause.
Matthew Goldberg, director of community relations for the Jewish Federation of Louis-
“In this executive order,
ville, remarked: “Boycotting Israel is immoral, as it specifically targets the only democracy in
Kentucky follows 25 other states
the Middle East, a staunch ally of the United States for decades. Everyone in the Common-
in protecting its citizens from
wealth of Kentucky should be proud that we are now on record as officially opposing the
becoming de facto participants
demonization of Israel.”
in discrimination and antisemi-
“BDS is economic terrorism. It is a movement intended to do with boycotts, divestments
tism,” said StandWithUs CEO
and sanctions what terrorists seek to do with bombs, missiles and bullets: destroy Israel. But just
Roz Rothstein. “We commend his
like all antisemites who’ve come before them, the BDS movement will fail,” said CUFI Founder
leadership at a time when we see
and Chairman Pastor John Hagee.
antisemitism rising.”
“Kentucky’s action today means that more than half the country has enacted legislation or
Pro-Israel Students
Protest SJP
Conference at UCLA,
Where Attendees
Call for Jewish
State’s Annihilation
BY BENJAMIN KERSTEIN
Two activists from Students Supporting Israel (SSI)
protested inside a Students for Justice in Palestine conference
held at UCLA over the weekend, while attendees chanted,
“Long live the intifada” and carried tote bags calling for the
annihilation of the Jewish state.
The bags carried the text “Make Israel Palestine Again,” a
clear reference to the idea of destroying Israel and replacing
it with a Palestinian state. One attendee proudly posted an
image on Instagram of an SJP member holding one of the bags.
Egged on by a speaker, the attendees shouted a series of
violent slogans, includingm “Free Palestine,” and, “Long live the
intifada,” a reference to the ongoing terrorist war against Israel.
“These guys scream ‘intifada’ over here, and that’s the
murder of Jews,” said SSI activist Ilan Sinelnikov, who took to
the stage with an Israeli flag. Another activist, Rudy Rochman,
carried a sign saying, “Jews are indigenous to Judea.”
“They only talk about Palestinian suffering in order to
use their suffering to attack Israel,” Rochman said.
“We’ve seen that throughout history, trying to make
the Jews the source of evil, Jews the source of the problems,
whether it’s the black plague, the problems in the Inquisition,
the problems in the Holocaust and the pogroms,” he added.
Rochman noted that SJP did not seek coexistence or
peace, and did not want dialogue with pro-Israel students,
but rather sought only to spread its ideology “in order to get
people to the conclusion that we don’t have the right to exist.”
The two pro-Israel activists were forcefully ejected from
the auditorium, with one attendee shouting, “Get the f*** out.”
“We are here to make sure that they see what a strong
Jewish people and warriors should look like,” said Sinelnikov.
Members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at
UC Berkeley. Photo: Ariel Hayat.
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A6 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2018
Opinion
Are Jared and Ivanka Good for the Jews? Hitler and any Jew who defends him is a Capo.
This kind of trivialization of the holocaust
and the demonization of a President with
a Jewish daughter and grandchildren is an
affront to decency. There is nothing wrong
with forcefully criticizing the President or
of hours of Torah – which he uses till today
The New York Times saying that Jared and his policies. Calling him a mass murderer
in his speeches before Jewish audiences – I
Ivanka are going to be shunned and excom- and demanding the excommunication of his
publicly criticized Cory’s decision to support
municated when they eventually return to Jewish children is revolting.
SHMULEY BOTEACH the deal.
New York. The Obama Administration was itself
ENGELWOOD What people don’t know is how many
The suggestion is disgusting and those guilty of some pretty serious human rights
Jewish leaders called me up begging me
saying it should be called out. omissions, most notably its failure to punish
not to publicly criticize his decision. They
A woman converts to Judaism, is obser- the gassing of Arab children in Syria, even as
were afraid of losing access to an influential
vant, and is totally committed to Israel and President Trump bombed Assad twice for
Senator. They were silent and they implored
It’s rare that I repeat an exact headline the Jewish people. She stands up publicly doing so. Or the Obama’s Administration’s
me to remain so.
from The New York Times, but this is the and proudly for the Jewish state. She comes decision, in its final weeks, to allow the UN
It worked. Most have retained their
title of an actual story that appeared this past from a well-known family, well before her to condemn Israeli settlements, even as they
access.
weekend. father became President. Was a fashion icon could not pass a single resolution condemning
There was one exception. In the days
The piece quoted many Jews who despise and a national celebrity from her father’s TV the Syrian genocide.
after the Iran vote I saw Jared, who had also
Trump and blame Jared and Ivanka for his show. And with all that, she adopts the obser- Still, I would condemn anyone who
been close to Cory. He was one of the few
policies because they provide, according to vances of the Jewish people and inherits their demonized Obama or his Jewish supporters.
people who gave me encouragement. He told
Leah Pisar, a Jewish leader from Paris, “a fig enemies. She gives up driving and texting There has to be some level of civility.
me he knew how hard it was for me to criticize
leaf” for the President. She added that it was on Shabbat or eating non-kosher food at I should also mention that I found it pretty
a friend. He told me that I had put the security
“inconceivable that Jared could stay affiliated the world’s priciest restaurants. She puts her bizarre that two Jewish authors in The New
and safety of the Jewish people first.
with the administration after Pittsburgh.” children in Jewish day school, even as the York Times would write a story as to whether
Nearly everyone else I knew shuddered
The Times also quoted Ethan Tucker, a kids of American First families invariably or not Jared and Ivanka are good for the Jews.
at challenging Cory because access to power
Rabbi and stepson of Senator Joe Lieberman, have them in Sidwell Friends or some other Barack Obama famously converted to
is the ultimate currency.
who asserted that, “I don’t think most fancy prep school. She pushes her father, the Christianity. His father was raised Muslim
And that’s basically been Jared’s whole
synagogues would give them an aliyah… I most powerful man on earth, to recognize the but became an atheist. In any event, he did
life. To protect the Jewish people as his father
don't think people generally honor people Jewish people’s eternal capital in Jerusalem. not raise his son. So Obama chose a great
before him and his grandfather, a holocaust
they feel were accomplices to politics and She urges her father to remove the United world religion to practice – Christianity – and
survivor, before him.
policies they abhor.” States from the Iran Nuclear Agreement, raise his children in that faith. Good for him.
The attacks on Jared and Ivanka are
Let me correct him. since Iran seeks “Death to America” and is Can anyone imagine The New York Times
disgusting and unseemly. Blaming them
Firstly, Ivanka would not seek an aliyah planning to build bombs to enact a Second publishing an article with the title, “Is Obama
for everything that happens in the Trump
because she’s an orthodox Jew and practices holocaust, which they promise proudly. Her Good for the Christians?”
Administration is as unfair as it is bizarre.
traditional orthodox Judaism where women father appoints an Ambassador to the UN Yet Ivanka Trump’s conversion to
I have plenty to disagree with in the
don’t seek or receive aliyot. Second, I don’t who finally makes it clear to that amoral world Judaism is fair game.
Administration and have voiced my objec-
know a single Synagogue on earth that would body that they better stop bullying Israel or I read The New York Times every day and
tions on many issues. But on Israel, I’m grateful.
not give Jared Kushner an aliyah and any that they’ll alienate the United States. And then our organization has also taken out countless
And so are the citizens of Israel where Trump
did so should be shut down. And the same that same woman proudly keeps the Jewish full page ads in The Times because of how
enjoys an eighty percent approval rating.
applies if they would deny an aliyah to any religion as, arguably, the first orthodox senior much I respect its influence.
That does not mean Trump has been
Jew because he is a Democrat, or voted for female advisor to the President of the United If The Times wants to attack Ivanka or
perfect on Jewish issues, especially on
Obama, or supported the Iran Nuclear Deal. States in American history. And what is her Jared for their policies, go right ahead. This is
Charlottesville. But it does mean that his
Am I the only one who is amazed at what reward from the community she joined? America. And no public official is above criti-
Jewish opponents, even if they won’t give him
is happening in our country, the gross politici- Threats of excommunication. cism. But debating whether they are good for
any credit, have to stop calling him Hitler and
zation of Jewish life by community members As for Jared, I will suffice with a single the Jews is an ugly question and beneath the
demonizing his family.
who despise Trump? story. dignity of the newspaper of record.
It’s disgusting. It’s vile. And it has to stop.
Let me be clear. I believe that Presi- Everyone knows that Cory Booker and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, “America’s
After Pittsburgh I wrote a column in The
dent Obama’s Iran nuclear agreement was a I were the closest of friends until the Iran Rabbi,” whom the Washington Post and
Hill where I decried the rise of white suprem-
betrayal of all American and Jewish values, nuclear agreement where he broke all our Newsweek calls “the most famous Rabbi in
acists in America, called on the President to
seeing as it rewarded a murderous govern- hearts by supporting the deal. Worse, he America,” is founder of The World Values
give a prime-time address excoriating them,
ment with $150 billion while they promised to never once took to the floor of the US Senate Network and is the international best-selling
and thanked President Trump for stopping
slaughter six million Jews. But I would never to condemn Iran for threatening genocide. author of 33 books, including Renewal,
the deligitimization of the Jewish state in
demonize Jews who backed the deal, even as I Everyone also knows that amid my life-long about the shared values of America and
international forums like the UN. A Jewish
opposed them on principle. love for a man who was my student President the Jewish people. Follow him on Twitter @
“leader” responded on Twitter that Trump is
Now we have Jewish leaders quoted in at Oxford and with whom I studied hundreds RabbiShmuley.
Israel and the Death Penalty actions that are no longer treated as crimes,
such as ritual violations, homosexuality, and
children who don’t respect their parents’ ideas
about discipline.
Yet it also put into places restrictions on its
enforcement that made such a final action rare,
Justice Committee debated a bill that would such as the requirement that two witnesses
make it easier for the Jewish state to execute were needed to secure a conviction. The
JONATHAN S. TOBIN captured terrorists. Israel’s Supreme Court. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Talmud also goes into great detail about the
JNS.ORG The law was already passed by the difficulties put into place for the death penalty.
Knesset in a preliminary vote and is now being gripped the world. One was that if the Sanhedrin court were
prepared in committee for a final vote. While There have been many egregious mass unanimous in its verdict, the accused would
recently resigned Defense Minister Avigdor murders committed by terrorists in Israel. But be acquitted because such a decision was,
It’s not every day that Israel decides not Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party sponsored not only have none of those convicted been by definition, untrustworthy. A well-known
to vote with the United States at the United it, the legislation received the endorsement executed, many of them have wound up being passage in the Mishnah says a court that would
Nations. It happened, however, on November of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and freed as a result of ransom deals that were execute a person once every seven years would
13, when the two countries wound up on it’s likely that it will be passed into law before struck in order to gain the freedom of Israelis be considered bloodthirsty. But the Talmud
different sides when the UN General Assem- this Knesset is dissolved in order to prepare held by terrorists, like kidnapped soldier Gilad notes the dissent of one rabbi who said that the
bly’s Third Committee held its biannual vote for new elections. Shalit. In 2011, Israel’s government swapped definition was actually one every 70 years.
on a resolution that discouraged member How is it possible for the government to 1,027 security prisoners to gain Shalit’s With that standard firmly embedded in
nations from using the death penalty. The simultaneously oppose the death penalty at the freedom, including 280 serving life sentences Jewish tradition, it is hardly surprising that
United States was one of 36 nations opposed United Nations while pushing for it at home? for involvement with terrorist crimes. The after 70 years of statehood, the only person
to it. Israel was among the 123 countries that The cognitive dissonance has to do with spectacle of so many killers with blood on their deemed worthy of execution was one who
voted in favor of the motion. politics, as parties in the coalition maneuver hands being allowed to waltz out of prison in played a key role in the death of six million
While it must be nice for Israeli diplo- to seem the toughest on terror. But it also illus- this fashion helped build support for a law that Jews. But the discussion about the issue in
mats to not, for a change, be the focus of the trates the mixed feelings the subject generates would ensure that murderers pay the ultimate Israel isn’t limited to debates about whether it
UN’s opprobrium (later in the week, Israel among many Jews. price, rather than lounging in prison awaiting deters murderers or whether judicial mistakes
would be unfairly condemned on various The death penalty already exists in the next such egregious agreement. render the death penalty problematic. In
bogus counts in nine separate resolutions), Israel, but it has only been enforced once This ambivalence is also rooted in Jewish Israel, it is inextricably linked to the conflict
the disagreement with the Americans wasn’t in the country’s 70-year history. The only religious law. with the Palestinians.
the only ironic aspect of the vote. Only a day person executed was Nazi war criminal Adolf The Torah demands the death penalty for One example is the August 2001
earlier, the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Eichmann after an intense public trial that a wide variety of offenses for both murder and Continued on Page A7
www.algemeiner.com . | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2018 A7
Opinion
The BBC’s Absurd Idea of
‘Context’ on Hamas Rocket
Attacks Against Israel
military-grade rockets and mortars.
Rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip toward Israel, Nov. 12,
James: “We wanted to break down some
HADAR SELA/ 2018. Photo: Reuters / Ahmed Zakot.
of the facts around Gaza and what happens
ISRAEL in this region to help put this story into some and the European Union. But not everyone Gaza” as a result of the elections in early 2006,
context. Here’s Orla Barry and Ben Davies agrees. Russia, China, and Turkey are among but did so nearly 18 months later in a violent
from the ‘OS’ team.” countries who do not regard it as such.” coup. In contrast to Davies’ inaccurate claim,
Listeners then heard (from 01:29) a Those two last sentences are virtually the blockade was not introduced “quickly,” but
contrived and simplistic quasi-Q&A session, identical to the Wikipedia entry for Hamas. following a sharp rise in terror attacks against
The lead item in the November 13th
beginning with a theme long popular at the BBC. Hamas of course does not just “advocate” the Israelis after the Hamas coup — which he
edition of the BBC World Service radio
Barry: “Where is Gaza?” use of violence in its quest to eradicate the failed to mention.
program OS — formerly Outside Source —
Davies: “Gaza, or the Gaza Strip as it’s Jewish state — it actively engages in violence. Barry: “What is life in Gaza like then?”
was described in its synopsis thus:
sometimes called, is bounded by the Mediter- Notably, BBC World Service listeners did not Davies: “In 2017, the Gaza Strip had the
It’s the heaviest exchange of aerial fire
ranean Sea to the west, Israel to the east and hear about Hamas’ Muslim Brotherhood links. highest unemployment rate in the World
between Israeli soldiers and Hamas militants
north, and Egypt to the south. Although only Barry: “What are the roots of this latest Bank’s development data base. It’s more
since the full-blown conflict in 2014. The
41 kms long and 10 kms wide, this strip of land conflict?” than double the rate of the West Bank and
violence follows an Israeli special forces
has one of the highest population densities in Davies: “When Hamas took control of youth unemployment is more than 60%. The
operation inside Gaza which went wrong late
the world — nearly 2 million people live there.” Gaza following regional elections in 2006 in growing poverty rate in the region has served
on Sunday, causing the deaths of Palestinian
As usual for the BBC, history begins in which they ousted the then ruling Palestinian only to fuel the anger of many of its residents.”
militants and an Israeli soldier. We hear from
1967, with no mention of how Egypt came Authority, Israel and Egypt were quick to In other words, the “context” given to
local people living in Gaza.
to occupy the Gaza Strip or of the fact that impose a blockade, restricting the movement BBC audiences around the world in this
Presenter Ben James told listeners (from
it is included in the territory designated for of goods and people in and out. The blockade “guide to the important stuff happening now”
00:11 here): [emphasis in italics in the original,
the creation of the Jewish homeland by the is ongoing. The Israeli government say [sic] framed unprecedented rocket and mortar
emphasis in bold added]
League of Nations. that millions of its population live in daily attacks against Israeli civilians as being rooted
We’re your guide to the important stuff
Barry: “What is its recent history?” fear of rockets fired by Hamas from Gaza — in poverty, allegedly caused by a misrepre-
happening now, and the story at the beginning
Davies: “Originally occupied by Egypt, rockets they say are smuggled into the region sented blockade and an “occupation” that
of our news bulletin then is certainly the one
the territory was captured by Israel during through secret tunnels. Hamas accuses Israel ended more than 13 years ago.
we’re going to spend a great deal of time on on
the 1967 Middle East war. Israel withdrew of indiscriminate airstrikes and an ongoing Hadar Sela is the managing editor of
this edition of the programme — what’s been
its troops and around 7,000 settlers in 2005. occupation of their land. They say that the BBC Watch, an affiliate of the Committee
happening between Israel and Gaza in the last
Whilst Egypt controls the southern border, blockade is the central cause for the region’s for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in
24 hours. You’ll have heard in the bulletin: seven
Israel controls the others, and since 2007, high levels of poverty and deprivation.” America (CAMERA).
people killed in a flare-up of violence between
the region has been governed by the Islamist Hamas of course did not take “control of
Israel and Palestinian militants. A short time
group Hamas.”
ago, you were just hearing that Hamas said it
Barry: “So who are Hamas?”
would agree to an Egyptian brokered cease-fire Continued from Page A8 atmospheric parties headed by MK Orly Levy
as long as Israel does. […] Just to take you back, Davies: “Hamas are a Sunni Islamist Oslo Process and former IDF chief-of-staff Benny Gantz.
the escalation began when this undercover organisation founded in 1987, born out of the emerge on the political scene. Thus we had the Gantz’s soaring popularity, despite the
Israeli Special Forces operation inside Gaza First Intifada — a Palestinian uprising that saw nascent Third Way Party, which won four seats total lack of public awareness of his political
was exposed on Sunday. Since then, more over 5 years of violent conflict between Pales- in 1996, only to evaporate into thin air three views and his unimpressive military record
than 400 rockets have been fired into Israel by tinians and Israelis. There is a key difference years later. It was followed by the similarly (having become chief-of-staff by default after
militants. Israeli aircraft have hit 150 militant between them and the Palestinian Authority disposed Center Party, which won six seats the technical disqualification of the chosen
targets in response. who control the West Bank — the other terri- in 1999 before disappearing from the political candidate), is particularly confounding. If
After telling listeners what would come tory run by Palestinians on the west bank [sic] scene in the 2003 elections, when another anything, it is reminiscent the spectacular rise
up later (but failing to note that the majority of of the Jordan river. Hamas do not recognise one-term party — One People — came into of the half-witted Chauncy Gardner in Jerzy
those killed in the Gaza Strip were terrorists), the right of Israel to exist and furthermore brief and unremarkable existence. The Shinui Kosinsky’s novel Being There (immortalized
James next introduced some patently one-sided they advocate the use of violence against it. (Change) party, an offshoot of the one-term by Peter Sellers in the 1979 movie version),
“context” to a story that is actually about terrorist Hamas is regarded either in whole or in part Democratic Movement for Change (DASH), who managed to win over captains of the
organizations attacking Israeli civilians with as a terrorist organisation by several countries which had played a key role in Likud’s 1977 American economy and political establish-
— most notably Israel, the United States, ascendance, managed to win six and 15 seats ment via prolonged silence punctured by
in the 1999 and 2003 elections, respectively, obtuse, yet ostensibly meaningful utterances.
Continued from Page A6 tional martyrs, but also lead to kidnappings of before vanishing altogether in 2006. The not wholly unrealistic possibility that
Death Penalty Jews, who would be threatened with murder Kadima, as we have seen, did much better one of these “atmospheric” celebrities may
bombing of the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem in retaliation. Far from deterring terror, such by winning the premiership in 2006, but it too find themselves in the prime minister’s office
during the Second Intifada. It was but one of sentences might further encourage it in a was gone by the time of the 2013 elections. should alarm Israelis, and is a sad testament
many such crimes during a five-year period culture where those who spill Jewish blood So was The Movement (Hatenua), formed by to the depths to which the Oslo process has
that ultimately took the lives of more than are not only given financial rewards by the Likud-defector-turned-Kadima-refugee Tzipi driven the Israeli state and political system.
1,000 Israelis. Among the 15 civilian deaths Palestinian Authority, but also acclaimed as Livni, which was amalgamated into Labor in Efraim Karsh is a Research Professor of
at the pizzeria were seven children and one committing an act of “resistance.” the 2015 elections to form the Zionist Union. Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at
pregnant woman. Like images of 9/11, the Seen from that perspective, the law is The Yesh Atid party headed by former King’s College London, Director of the Middle
pictures of the empty strollers outside the probably counterproductive, and the betting TV personality Yair Lapid, which made an East Forum a Philadelphia-based think tank,
bombed-out wreck remain haunting. here is that even if it is passed, it will never impressive debut in 2013 (19 seats, dropping and editor of the Forum’s flagship publication,
One of those complicit in this horror be enforced. It also might be wiser policy to 11 in 2015), and the Kulanu Party headed by The Middle East Quarterly. BESA Center Perspec-
was Ahlam Tamimi. She escorted the suicide for Israelis to insist that their leaders don’t Likud defector Moshe Kahlon, which entered tives Papers are published through the generosity
bomber to the site (her younger cousin, the release murderers, but as Netanyahu showed the political fray in 2015 (10 seats), will likely of the Greg Rosshandler Family. This article was
blond teenager Ahed, achieved interna- in 2011, the pressure on prime ministers to survive the 2019 elections. Yet they are certain also published in The Jerusalem Post.
tional fame in the last year for slapping an gain the freedom of captive Jews will always to take a beating from the (yet to be established)
Israeli soldier). She was caught and given lead to bad deals.
16 life sentences, and not only expressed no Rather than condemn the Knesset for
remorse but said she was sorry so few Jews this bill, those who oppose the death penalty Continued from Page A12 feel the triumph of conquest and victory, and
had been killed. She walked free in the Shalit in every circumstance need to understand Moral Distress therefore we receive it with mixed feelings.
exchange, and was received as a heroine that there is something profoundly wrong abstain from celebration. The warriors in the These mixed feelings were born
in Jordan. So it’s not surprising that many with a system that allows the most blood- front lines saw with their own eyes not only thousands of years earlier, when Jacob, father
Israelis think it’s time to start dealing out thirsty of killers to walk free. Who can blame the glory of victory but the price of victory: of the Jewish people, experienced not only the
justice to Palestinian murderers. Israelis for demanding justice for the victims? their comrades who fell beside them bleeding, physical fear of defeat but the moral distress
The argument against the law comes Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of and I know that even the terrible price which of victory. Only those who are capable of
from Israel’s security services. They have JNS — Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him our enemies paid touched the hearts of many feeling both, can defend their bodies without
good reason to worry that death sentences on Twitter @jonathans_tobin. of our men. It may be that the Jewish people endangering their souls.
will not only turn murderers into interna- has never learned or accustomed itself to Shabbat shalom
A8 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2018 .
Impressions
The Depths to Which the Oslo
Next Flare-Up in
Process Has Driven Israel
Gaza Is Only a
Matter of Time
BY EFRAIM KARSH too failed to save the day, and on February 6, 2001,
Barak suffered the worst electoral defeat in Israel’s
In the 25 years since the signing of the Oslo history. He was replaced at the prime minister’s
BY EYAL ZISSER/ Accords in September 1993, just one of the 10 office by Likud leader Ariel Sharon.
reigning Israeli governments has completed its Barak’s defeat was primarily a vote of no confi-
ISRAEL HAYOM/JNS.org
entire tenure, with one term ended by the unprec- dence in his ability to manage the conflict with the
edented assassination of the incumbent prime Palestinians, just as his landslide victory two years
minister. Meanwhile, parliament’s average lifespan earlier had been an indictment of Netanyahu. Yet it
Last week’s flare-up between Israel and Hamas has dropped from 3.6 years to three years and a was emblematic of Labor’s intractable decline. Just
saw both parties displaying determination alongside record number of parties were formed, torn apart, as the party’s failure to anticipate the October 1973
restraint, as neither really wants another war. Both sides and disbanded. war had resulted in its loss of power for the first time
tried to display their military might and maintain their Since the conflict with the Palestinian Arabs since the establishment of the State of Israel, so the
deterrence against each other, while remaining duly had bedeviled the Jewish national revival for nearly a bloody collapse of the Oslo process dealt a mortal
wary of an unnecessary plunge into the quagmire of war. century, it was only natural that the seeming promise blow to its aspirations for national leadership.
It also seemed that both sides wanted to reach of its imminent resolution generated a tidal wave of In 1992, the Rabin-led Labor party won the
another ceasefire with as few casualties and as little euphoria among Israeli Jews. For over a year, they elections by a comfortable majority of 44 seats to
damage as possible. ignored the long trail of blood and destruction wrought Likud’s 32. By 1999, its parliamentary representa-
Hamas instigated the latest round of violence, by the agreement, whose many casualties were tion had declined to 26 (though Likud suffered a
citing retaliation for the killing of its fighters in a infamously defined by Rabin as “the victims of peace.” similar setback due to widespread disillusionment
botched IDF operation in Khan Yunis. That is nothing It was not until late January 1995 that they were shaken with Netanyahu). Labor dropped to 19 seats in
new, as Hamas — taking a page out of Hezbol- out of their self-delusion by the wild celebrations in 2003 (half of Likud’s strength) and to a mere 13 in
lah’s playbook — makes sure that it never leaves an Gaza of the murder of 19 Israelis in a suicide bombing, 2009. And while Labor managed to make a partial
with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat publicly defying recovery in the 2015 elections by uniting with a
Rabin’s plea to condemn the atrocity. newly established party, it has failed to regain the
By the time of his assassination on November 4, national leadership since Barak’s 2001 defeat. Likud,
1995, Rabin was trailing Benjamin Netanyahu in most by contrast, has enjoyed four electoral wins over the
polls. And while this trend was instantly reversed by period (in 2003, 2009, 2013, and 2015).
the assassination and the resulting nationwide revul-
sion, it was restored in early March 1996 by a string of
terrorist attacks that murdered 58 Israelis in the span
of one week and catapulted Netanyahu into the prime
minister’s office two months later.
Hamas terrorists. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Yet such was the extent of Israelis’ yearning for
unsettled score against Israel, especially if an Israeli peace that many of them continued to turn a blind
operation claims Hamas operatives’ lives. Hamas is eye to the mounting evidence of PLO perfidy, viewing
determined to preserve the deterrence it has been Netanyahu’s insistence that the organization abide by
able to generate. its obligations as an obstacle to “peace.” And so it was
With a tentative ceasefire in place thanks to that despite the sharp drop in terrorist fatalities on
Egypt’s efforts, Hamas wants to ensure any lull also his watch, from 210 during the Rabin-Peres govern-
spells immunity for its leaders and operatives. It always ments to 72, precisely three years after reaching the
maintains that a ceasefire must cement its position as premiership on the crest of disillusionment with the The signing of the Oslo Accords in Washington,
the Gaza Strip’s ruler, and the only entity with which Palestinian “peace partner,” Netanyahu was forced out DC, Sept. 13, 1993. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Israel and Egypt can deal for any future military and of office by rekindled hopes for a restoration of this
political arrangement in the coastal enclave. Again, “partnership.” That a period marred by murderous Moreover, even Likud’s single electoral defeat
that is nothing new. terrorist attacks (1993-1996) was yet again miscon- during those years — in 2006, when it was reduced
The truly troubling issue underscored by last strued as a “peace process,” while one characterized to a mere 12 Knesset seats — was a matter of form
week’s violence is the ease with which Hamas repeat- by diminished terrorism and improving socioeco- rather than substance, stemming as it did from
edly pulled the trigger. The terrorist group acts as nomic conditions in the territories (1996-1999) was Sharon’s secession from the party, together with
though it does not fear Israel at all, and while it remains seen as antithetical to peace was a sad testament to scores of leading politicians, and the formation of
careful not to go too far and provoke an all-out war, it the cognitive dissonance of most Israelis at the time. the Kadima party. Sharon was incapacitated by a
seems to feel confident enough to instigate rounds of Before long, however, Prime Minister Ehud stroke shortly before the 2006 elections. But his
violence from which it hopes to emerge the winner. Barak had outlived his usefulness to Arafat and soaring popularity for having put down Arafat’s war
Hamas wants to be portrayed as the entity that was forced to follow in his predecessor’s unhappy of terrorism sufficed to catapult Ehud Olmert, his
took the initiative, dictated the rules and the duration footsteps: the fourth Palestinian-induced prime accidental successor, into the prime minister’s office
of the game, fired hundreds of projectiles at Israel, ministerial change in Israel in six years. and enabled Kadima to win the subsequent 2009
and, most importantly, emerged with a deal that has When in July 2000, at the US-convened peace elections by the slimmest of margins (though it was
not only made it stronger, but given it a new position summit at Camp David, Barak ceded virtually the entire Likud that managed to form a government), only to
of power against Israel and the Palestinian Authority. territory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the nascent fade into oblivion in the 2013 elections.
Hamas seems to believe that Israel is more Palestinian state and made breathtaking conces- And therein lies the foremost Oslo-generated
concerned about war than it is, and that Israel wants sions with respect to Jerusalem, Arafat’s response political debacle. For while Israel’s diverse political
to preserve Hamas’ rule in the Gaza Strip because it was an all-out terrorist war, at a level of local violence system has seen the rise and fall of sectarian parties
believes there is no better alternative. unmatched in scope and intensity since the attempt to from the earliest days of statehood, the prolifera-
As long as these are the basic assumptions by abort the creation of the Jewish state in 1948. tion of “atmosphere parties” thriving on the general
which Hamas operates, we cannot assume it will In a desperate bid to salvage his tottering yearning for change while effectively servicing their
change its strategy. On the contrary, even if this round rule, Barak accepted President Clinton’s proposed founders’ political ambitions skyrocketed to new
of violence has indeed come to an end, the next concessions (December 2000), which Arafat heights during the Oslo years, with Israel’s once-
flare-up is only a matter of time. dismissed out of hand. Barak made yet further dominant party rapidly sinking into irrelevance.
In the meantime, Hamas is staying the course. concessions during the January 2001 summit at the The cognitive dissonance between the acknowl-
Eyal Zisser is a lecturer in the Middle East Egyptian Red Sea resort of Taba, which by the Pales- edgment of Palestinian perfidy and the lingering
History Department at Tel Aviv University. tinian account included recognition of the “right longing for peace drove many Israelis to cling to
of return” — the Palestinian catchword for Israel’s whatever celebrity hope-peddler happened to
destruction through demographic subversion. This
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Certificates of form on file with premises known as 1120 Clarkson NY 11207. Block 4060 Lot 41. All that $38,763.37 and that the Court fix the
Nevada secretary of state 101 North Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11212. (Block: certain plot, piece or parcel of land, fair and reasonable additional fee
Carson St. suite #3 Carson City, NV 4650, Lot: 10). Approximate amount situate, lying and being in the Borough for any services to be rendered by
89701. Purpose: all lawful activity of lien $ 932,105.81 plus interest and of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter
AJ; 10/26; 11/2/9/16/23/30 costs. Premises will be sold subject and State of New York. Approximate in connection with proceedings on
to provisions of filed judgment and Amount of Judgment is $713,136.24 kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME terms of sale. Index No. 511267-15. plus interest and costs. Premises will a final Decree on this accounting in
COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. Philip L. Kamaras, Esq., Referee. Stern be sold subject to provisions of filed the amount of 6% of assets or income
BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, & Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plain- Judgment Index No 507895/2013. collected after the date of the within
Notice of formation of limited liability AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN tiff Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 Jaime Lathrop, Esq, Referee XCHJC005 accounting; and why the Surrogate
company(LLC) Name: SUPERNAL INTEREST TO WACHOVIA BANK, B Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ AJ; 11/2/9/16/23 should not fix and allow an amount
LLC. Articles of organization filed NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS 08830 [phone] *For sale infor- equal to one percent on said Sched-
with the secretary of state of New TRUSTEE FOR GSR MORTGAGE mation, please visit www.auction.com NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT ules of the total assets on Schedules
York(SSNY) on 09/18/2018. Office LOAN TRUST 2005-8F, MORTGAGE or call 800-280-2832 COUNTY OF KINGS WILMINGTON A, A1, and A2 plus any additional
location: Kings county. SSNY has PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, AJ; 11/2/9/16/23/ SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, monies received subsequent to the
been designated as the agent of the SERIES 2005 8F, Plaintiff AGAINST D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT date of this account, as the fair and
LLC upon whom process against it ETTY SALAMON, YEHUDA SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE reasonable amount payable to the
may be served. SSNY Shall mail copy SALAMON, et al., Defendant(s) NEW YORK - COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. FOR VENTURES TRUST 2013-I-H-R, Office of the Public Administrator for
of the process to: The LLC 22 N6th Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo- BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff AGAINST Kirk Gibson, et al., the expenses of said office pursuant to
Street,APT 4I Brooklyn, NY 11249. sure and Sale duly dated March 14, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment S.C.P.A. §1106(3); and why the claim
Purpose: all lawful activity 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will OF THE CSFB MORTGAGE SECURI- of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated from NYC Human Resources Admin-
AJ; 10/19/26; 11/2/9/16/23 sell at public auction at the Kings TIES CORP., ADJUSTABLE RATE August 06, 2018 I, the undersigned istration in the amount of $455,086.22
County Supreme Court, Room 224, MORTGAGE TRUST 2005-8, ADJUST- Referee will sell at public auction at the should not be paid; and why each of
MANHATTAN AVENUE VENTURES, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New ABLE RATE MORTGAGE- BACKED Room 224 of Kings County Supreme you claiming to be a distributee of
LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY York 11201, on December 06, 2018 PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, the decedent should not establish
on 10/02/18. Office: Kings County. at 2:30PM, premises known as 1152 SERIES 2005-8, V. JOSEPH C. FERRIS; New York 11201, on December 06, proof of your kinship; and why the
SSNY designated as agent of the LLC 53RD STREET, BROOKLYN, NY ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as balance of said funds should not be
upon whom process against it may 11219. All that certain plot piece or IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a 729 MACON STREET, BROOKLYN, paid to said alleged distributees upon
be served. SSNY shall mail copy of parcel of land, with the buildings Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated NY 11233. All that certain plot piece or proof of kinship, or deposited with the
process to the LLC, 132 Greenpoint and improvements erected, situate, August 17, 2018, and entered in the parcel of land, with the buildings and Commissioner of Finance of the City of
Avenue, Suite B-1, Brooklyn, NY 11222. lying and being in the Borough of Office of the Clerk of the County of improvements erected, situate, lying New York should said alleged distribu-
Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and Kings, wherein U.S. BANK, NATIONAL and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, tees default herein, or fail to establish
AJ; 10/19/26; 11/2/9/16/23 State of New York, BLOCK 5668, LOT ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR County of Kings, City and State of proof of kinship. Dated, Attested and
26. Approximate amount of judgment THE HOLDERS OF THE CSFB New York, BLOCK 66, LOT 1493. Sealed 29th day of October, 2018 HON.
Notice of formation of limited liability $996,479.39 plus interest and costs. MORTGAGE SECURITIES CORP., Approximate amount of judgment PETER J. KELLY Surrogate, Queens
company(LLC).NAME: REQUIRED Premises will be sold subject to provi- ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE $1,065,650.42 plus interest and costs. County JAMES LIM BECKER Clerk
SAFETY LLC .Articles of organization sions of filed Judgment for Index# TRUST 2005-8, ADJUSTABLE RATE Premises will be sold subject to provi- of the Surrogate’s Court GERARD
filed with the secretary of state of New 514510/2015. AARON TYK, ESQ., MORTGAGE- BACKED PASS- sions of filed Judgment for Index# J. SWEENEY, ESQ. (718) 459-9000
York(SSNY) on 10/09/2018. Office Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2427/2008. Aaron Tyk, Esq., Referee 1981 Marcus Avenue, Suite 200 Lake
location: Richmond County. SSNY has for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 2005-8 is the Plaintiff and JOSEPH C. Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Success, New York 11042 This citation
been designated as the agent of the 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 58403 FERRIS; ET AL. are the Defendant(s). Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 is served upon you as required by
LLC upon whom process against it AJ; 11/2/9/16/23/ I, the undersigned Referee will sell at Williamsville, NY 14221 57696 law. You are not obliged to appear in
may be served. SSNY shall Mail copy public auction at the KINGS COUNTY AJ; 11/2/9/16/23 person. If you fail to appear it will be
of the process to: Required Safety LLC NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET, assumed that you do not object to the
229 Colony Ave., Staten Island, NY COUNTY OF KINGS DEUTSCHE ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on File No.: 2016-4626/A CITATION relief requested unless you file formal
10306. Purpose: all lawful activity BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY December 6, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF legal, verified objections. You have a
AJ; 10/19/26; 11/2/9/16/23 AS TRUSTEE FOR GSSAA HOME known as 94 CELESTE COURT, NEW YORK BY THE GRACE OF right to have an attorney-at-law appear
EQUITY TRUST 2006-8 ASSET- BROOKLYN, NY 11229: Block 8946, GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT for you. Accounting Citation
BERGER FINK LLP filed Cert. of Regis- BACKED CERTIFICATES SERIES Lot 922: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, To: Peggi Cohen, Avraham Cohen, AJ; 11/2/9/16/23
tration with the SSNY on 8/14/18. 2006-8, Plaintiff AGAINST HAZEL- PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND WITH Rena Cohen, Albert Pokras, Beatrice
Office location: Kings County. SSNY ANN RODERIQUE, et al., Defendant(s) THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVE- Brown, Peter David Halper, Barbara NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT
has been designated as agent of the Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo- MENTS THEREON ERECTED, Shroyer, Fern Collier, Sherry Collier, COUNTY OF KINGS US Bank National
LLC upon whom process against it sure and Sale duly dated August 16, SITUATE LYING AND BEING IN Estate of Seymour Collier, HRA-OLA- Association, as Trustee for Adjustable
may be served and shall mail process 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, LRLU, Attorney General of the State Rate Mortgage Trust 2006-2, Adjust-
to: The LLP, 26 Court St., Penthouse, sell at public auction at the Room COUNTY OF KINGS, CITY AND of New York The unknown distribu- able Rate Mortgage Backed Pass
Brooklyn, NY 11242. Purpose: Law. 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will tees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law Through Certificates, Series 2006-2,
AJ; 10/26; 11/2/9/16/23/30 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New be sold subject to provisions of filed and assignees of ALAN HALPER, Plaintiff AGAINST Edward Vaysman;
York 11201, on December 06, 2018 Judgment Index # 504524/2014. Philip deceased, or their estates, if any Malka Lowensohn a/k/a Malka
Notice of formation of limited liability at 2:30PM, premises known as 1384 Kamaras, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, there be, whose names, places of Vaysman; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant
company (LLC). Name: LEMON EAST 55TH STREET, BROOKLYN, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite residence and post office addresses to a Judgment of Foreclosure and
NAILS & SPA,LLC . Articles of organi- NY 11234. All that certain plot piece 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attor- are unknown to the petitioner and Sale duly dated October 4, 2018 I, the
zation filed with the secretary of state or parcel of land, with the buildings neys for Plaintiff. cannot with due diligence be ascer- undersigned Referee will sell at public
of New York (SSNY) on 08/23/20018. and improvements erected, situate, AJ; 11/2/9/16/23/ tained. Being the persons interested auction at the Kings County Supreme
Office location: Kings county. SSNY lying and being in the Borough of as creditors, legatees, distributees Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224,
has been designated as the agent of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and Notice of formation of limited liability or otherwise in the Estate of ALAN Brooklyn, NY 11201 on December
the LLC upon whom process against it State of New York, BLOCK 7852, LOT company(LLC) Name: SAMPA HALPER, deceased, who at the time 13, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known
may be served. SSNY shall Mail copy 65. Approximate amount of judgment RESTAURANT LLC.Articles of organi- of death was a resident of 63-47 76th as 1137 East 5th Street, Brooklyn, NY
of the process to: Jessica C Alulema $298,030.13 plus interest and costs. zation filed with the secretary of state Street, Middle Village, NY 11379, in the 11230. All that certain plot piece or
90-23 149th St., Apt. 5 K Jamaica, NY Premises will be sold subject to provi- of New York(SSNY) on 09/18/2018. County of Queens, State of New York. parcel of land, with the buildings and
11435. Purpose: all lawful activity sions of filed Judgment for Index# Office location: Kings county. SSNY SEND GREETING: Upon the petition improvements erected, situate, lying
AJ; 10/26; 11/2/9/16/23/30 505116/2017. AARON TYK, ESQ., has been designated as the agent of of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public and being in the Borough of Brooklyn,
Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney the LLC upon whom process against it Administrator of Queens County, County of Kings, City and State of
STATEWIDE FUNERAL SERVICE for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite may be served. SSNY shall mail copy who maintains her office at 88-11 NY, Block 5495 Lot 883. Approximate
LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 57563 of the process to:Henrique Stangorlini Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens amount of judgment $1,175,926.50
on 10/05/18. Office: Kings County. AJ; 11/2/9/16/23 226 montrose Ave Apt 1A # 1A Kings County, New York 11435, as Adminis- plus interest and costs. Premises
SSNY designated as agent of the LLC #047 Brooklyn,NY 11206 . Purpose all trator of the Estate of ALAN HALPER, will be sold subject to provisions of
upon whom process against it may SUPREME COURT – COUNTY lawful activity deceased, you and each of you are filed Judgment Index# 511754/2014.
be served. SSNY shall mail copy of OF KINGS U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AJ; 11/2/9/16/23/30; 12/7 hereby cited to show cause before Aaron Maslow, Esq., Referee Shapiro,
process to the LLC, 1814 East 22nd AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for
Street, Brooklyn, NY 11229. Purpose: PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT of the County of Queens, to be held the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boule-
Any lawful purpose. against MARIE C. JEAN-LOUIS, KINGS COUNTY JPMORGAN CHASE at the Queens General Courthouse, vard Rochester, New York 14624 (877)
AJ; 10/26; 11/2/9/16/23/30 et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, 430-4792 Dated: October 18, 2018
Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Plaintiff against MARLAN ALLEN, et Jamaica, City and State of New York, 58354
HANDY GIRL PROPERTIES,LLC entered on September 12, 2018. I, al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) on the 6th day of December, 2018 at AJ; 11/9/16/23/30;
Authority filed with secretary of state the undersigned Referee will sell at Fein, Such & Crane, LLP 28 East Main 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the
of New York(SSNY ) on 10/05/2018. public auction in Room 224 of the Street Suite 1800, Rochester, NY Account of Proceedings of the Public NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court
Office location: Kings county. LLC Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams 14614 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Administrator of Queens County, as County Of Kings 399 Broadway
formed in Nevada on 09/17/2018. Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 6th day of Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure Administrator of the Estate of said Holdings LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST
SSNY has been designated as the December, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. premises and Sale Entered May 23, 2017 I will deceased, a copy of which is attached, Constance Anastasio, Saverio
agent of the LLC upon whom process described as follows: All that certain sell at Public Auction to the highest should not be judicially settled, and Anastasio, Peter Anastasio, Anthony
may be served SSNY shall Mail copy plot, piece or parcel of land with the bidder at the Kings County Supreme why the Surrogate should not fix and Anastasio, et al, Defendant Pursuant
of process to: Registered Agents inc. buildings and improvements thereon Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, allow a reasonable amount of compen- to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale
90 State St. STE 700 office 40 Albany, erected, situate, lying and being in Brooklyn, NY 11201 on December sation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, duly dated 9/12/2018 and entered
NY 12207. Address of the LLC 515 E. the Borough of Brooklyn, County of 6, 2018 at 2:30 PM. Premises known ESQ., for legal services rendered to on 9/20/2018, I, the undersigned
7th St., Apt. 2 K Brooklyn, NY 11218. Kings, City and State of New York. Said as 863 Dumont Avenue, Brooklyn, petitioner herein in the amount of Continued on Page A10
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Tradition Legal Notice
Physical Fear, Moral
LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE
Distress
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, on Avenue M immediately adjoining of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated
WMALT Series 2006-8, Plaintiff the premises herein described on June 26, 2018 I, the undersigned
AGAINST Eric D. Garnes, individually the easterly side thereof, and running Referee will sell at public auction at the
and as surviving joint tenant of Delia northerly to garage, erected or to Room 224 of Kings County Supreme
Curtis, et al, Defendant Pursuant to be erected. SUBJECT, however, to a Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn,
a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale similar easement and right of way for New York 11201, on December 13,
to the Midrash, is that the first is duly dated 10/10/18 and entered on the purpose of a driveway, in and to 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as
a physical anxiety, the second a 10/18/18, I, the undersigned Referee, and over a strip of land 3 feet 6 inches 287 EMPIRE BLVD, BROOKLYN, NY
JONATHAN SACKS moral one. It is one thing to fear will sell at public auction at the Kings in width fronting on the northerly side 11225. All that certain plot piece or
County Supreme Court, 360 Adams of Avenue M, being the easterly 3 feet 6 parcel of land, with the buildings and
one’s own death, quite another to
LONDON Street, Brooklyn, NY on December 13, inches in width on the premises herein improvements erected, situate, lying
contemplate being the cause of
2018 at 02:30 PM premises known as described, as running northerly to the and being in the Borough of Brooklyn,
someone else’s. Jacob’s emotion,
245 E 46th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11203. garage, erected or to be erected. Said County of Kings, City and State of New
then, was twofold, encompassing All that certain plot piece or parcel of premises known as 4311 Avenue M, York, BLOCK 1308, LOT 61. Approxi-
Twenty-two years have passed the physical and psychological, the land, with the buildings and improve- Brooklyn, N.Y. 11234. (Block: 7841, mate amount of judgment $830,653.03
since Jacob fled his brother, penni- moral and the material. ments erected, situate, lying and being Lot: 5). Approximate amount of lien plus interest and costs. Premises will
less and alone; twenty-two years However, this raises a further in the County of Kings, City and State $ 299,408.58 plus interest and costs. be sold subject to provisions of filed
have passed since Esau swore his question. Self-defence is permitted of New York, BLOCK: 4851, LOT: 40. Premises will be sold subject to provi- Judgment for Index# 508980/2015.
Approximate amount of judgment sions of filed judgment and terms Jack Segal, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy,
revenge for what he saw as the theft in Jewish law. If Esau were to try
is $780,358.49 plus interests and of sale. Index No. 510166-17. Bruno LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle
of his blessing. Now the brothers are to kill Jacob, Jacob would be justi-
costs. Premises will be sold subject Codispoti, Esq., Referee. DeRose & Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY
about to meet again. It is a fraught fied in fighting back, if necessary
to provisions of filed Judgment Index Surico Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 213-44 14221 57311
encounter. Once, Esau had sworn at the cost of Esau’s life. Why then # 505910/2015. Steven Z. Naiman, 38th Avenue Bayside, N.Y. 11361 AJ; 11/9/16/23/30;
to kill Jacob. Will he do so now – or should this possibility raise moral Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS AJ; 11/9/16/23/30;
has time healed the wound? Jacob qualms? This is the issue addressed WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT
sends messengers to let his brother by Rabbi Shabbetai Bass, author of Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 SUPREME COURT - COUNTY COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO
AJ; 11/9/16/23/30; OF KINGS JAMES B. NUTTER & BANK, NA, Plaintiff AGAINST
know he is coming. They return, the commentary on Rashi, Siftei
COMPANY, Plaintiff -against- GISELE RICARDO JACKSON, ASTRID
saying that Esau is coming to meet Chachamim:
NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court CADET AKA GISELE NICHOLAS ARMORER, et al., Defendant(s)
Jacob with a force of four hundred One might argue that Jacob
County Of Kings CitiMortgage, Inc. ADA GISELE NICOLAS CADET AS Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure
men – a contingent so large it should surely not be distressed sbm ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF and Sale duly dated June 26, 2018 I, the
suggests to Jacob that Esau is intent about the possibility of killing Inc., Plaintiff AGAINST Carmelle THE ESTATE OF GERARD CADET; undersigned Referee will sell at public
on violence. Esau, for there is an explicit rule: Telemaque, et al, Defendant Pursuant ETC..., et al Defendant(s). Pursuant auction at the Kings County Supreme
Jacob’s response is immediate “If someone comes to kill you, to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Court, Room 224, 360 Adams
and intense: forestall it by killing him.” Nonethe- duly dated 10/10/18 and entered on Sale dated September 11, 2017 and Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201,
10/22/18, I, the undersigned Referee, entered on September 26, 2017, I, the on December 13, 2018 at 2:30PM,
Then Jacob was greatly afraid less, Jacob did have qualms, fearing
will sell at public auction at the Kings undersigned Referee will sell at public premises known as 530 JEFFERSON
and distressed (Gen. 32:8) that in the course of the fight he
County Supreme Court, 360 Adams auction at the Kings County Court- AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11221. All
The fear is understandable, but might kill some of Esau’s men, who Street, Brooklyn, NY on December 13, house 360 Adams Street, Room 224, that certain plot piece or parcel of land,
his response contains an enigma. were not themselves intent on killing 2018 at 02:30 PM premises known as Brooklyn, NY on December 13, 2018 with the buildings and improvements
Why the duplication of verbs? What him but merely on fighting his men. 1220 East 102nd Street, Brooklyn, NY at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying erected, situate, lying and being in
is the difference between fear and And even though Esau’s men were 11236. All that certain plot piece or and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, the City of Brooklyn, County of Kings,
distress? To this a Midrash gives a pursuing Jacob’s men, and every parcel of land, with the buildings and County of Kings, City and State of City and State of New York, BLOCK
improvements erected, situate, lying New York, bounded and described 1654, LOT 22. Approximate amount
profound answer: person has the right to save the life
and being in the County of Kings, as follows: BEGINNING at a point on of judgment $922,617.75 plus interest
Rabbi Judah bar Ilai said: Are of the pursued at the cost of the life
City and State of New York, BLOCK: the westerly side of East 57th Street, and costs. Premises will be sold
not fear and distress identical? The of the pursuer, nonetheless there is a
8266, LOT: 54. Approximate amount distant 300 feet southerly from the subject to provisions of filed Judgment
meaning, however, is that “he was condition: “If the pursued could have of judgment is $385,921.01 plus inter- corner formed by the intersection of for Index# 2924/2013. LEONARD
afraid” that he might be killed; “he been saved by maiming a limb of ests and costs. Premises will be sold the westerly side of East 57th Street C. SPECTOR, ESQ., Referee Gross
was distressed” that he might kill. the pursuer, but instead the rescuer subject to provisions of filed Judgment with the southerly side of Linden Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775
For Jacob thought: If he prevails killed the pursuer, the rescuer is Index # 508306/2013. Randolph Avenue; being a plot 100 feet by 30 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville,
Jackson, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT feet by 100 feet by 30 feet. Block: 4682 NY 14221 58508
against me, will he not kill me; liable to capital punishment on that
WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP Lot: 22 Said premises known as 116 AJ; 11/9/16/23/30;
while if I prevail against him, will account.” Hence Jacob feared that, in
53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 EAST 57TH STREET, BROOKLYN,
I not kill him? That is the meaning the confusion of battle, he might kill
AJ; 11/9/16/23/30; NY Approximate amount of lien SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF
of “he was afraid” – lest he should some of Esau’s men when he might $621,435.76 plus interest & costs. KINGS THE BANK OF NEW YORK
be killed; “and distressed” – lest he have restrained them by merely SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF Premises will be sold subject to provi- MELLON AS TRUSTEE FOR CIT
should kill. inflicting injury on them. KINGS BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, sions of filed Judgment and Terms MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-1,
The difference between being The principle at stake, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED of Sale. Index Number 7244/2011. Plaintiff against RUBY STRACHAN;
afraid and distressed, according LIABILITY COMPANY, Plaintiff AARON D. MASLOW, ESQ., Referee VERONICA STRACHAN; SAPPHIRE
Continued on Page A12 against LOUIS L. FESTAGALLO Westerman Ball Ederer Miller Zucker STRACHAN, et al Defendant(s).
A/K/A LOUIS FESTAGALLO AND & Sharfstein, LLP Attorney(s) for Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure
CATHERINE FESTAGALLO, et al Plaintiff 1201 RXR Plaza, Uniondale, and Sale entered on October 29, 2018.
LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment NY 11556 I, the undersigned Referee will sell
of Foreclosure and Sale entered on AJ; 11/9/16/23/30; at public auction in Room 224 of the
October 18, 2018. I, the undersigned Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams
Continued from Page A9 house, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn,
Referee will sell at public auction in Notice of formation of a limited Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 13th day of
Referee, will sell at public auction at N.Y. on the 13th day of December, Room 224 of the Kings County Court- liability company(LLC).Name: December, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. premises
the Kings County Supreme Court, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. premises described house, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, MINDSPRING YOGA LLC.Articles of described as follows: All that certain
360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY as follows: All that certain plot, piece N.Y. on the 13th day of December, organization filed with the secretary plot, piece or parcel of land, with the
on December 13, 2018 at 02:30 PM or parcel of land, with the buildings 2018 at 2:30 p.m. premises described of state of New York on: 10/03/2018. buildings and improvements thereon
premises known as 1112 40th Street, and improvements thereon erected, as follows: All that certain plot, piece Office location: Kings county. SSNY erected, situate, lying and being in the
Brooklyn, NY 11218. All that certain situate, lying and being in the Borough or parcel of land, situate, lying and has been designated as the agent of Borough of Brooklyn, City New York,
plot piece or parcel of land, with the of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City being in the Borough of Brooklyn, the LLC upon whom process against it County of Kings and State of New York.
buildings and improvements erected, and State of New York. Said premises County of Kings, City and State of may be served. SSNY Shall mail copy Said premises known as 462 East 40th
situate, lying and being in the County known as 2850 Gerritsen Avenue, New York, bounded and described as of the process to:Mindspring Yoga LLC Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11203. (Block:
of Kings, City and State of New York, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11229. (Block: 8914, follows: BEGINNING at a point on the 404 Kosciuszko Street Brooklyn, NY 4939, Lot: 9). Approximate amount
BLOCK: 5588, LOT: 12. Approximate Lot: 279). Approximate amount of northerly side of Avenue M, distant 11221. Purpose: All lawful activity of lien $ 622,145.45 plus interest and
amount of judgment is $1,321,559.13 lien $ 445,747.49 plus interest and eighty feet from the corner formed by AJ; 11/9/16/23/30; 12/7/14 costs. Premises will be sold subject
plus interests and costs. Premises will costs. Premises will be sold subject the intersection of the westerly side of to provisions of filed judgment and
be sold subject to provisions of filed to provisions of filed judgment and Troy Avenue with the northerly side of NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME terms of sale. Index No. 506263-13.
Judgment Index # 502336/2014. Jack terms of sale. Index No. 501000-14. Avenue M; RUNNING THENCE north- COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. Philip L. Kamaras, Esq., Referee. Stern
Segal, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT Mark A. Longo, Esq., Referee. Stern & erly and parallel with Troy Avenue 100 BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, & Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plain-
WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff feet; THENCE westerly and parallel AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN tiff Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485
53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 B with Avenue M, 20 feet; THENCE INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, B Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ
AJ; 11/9/16/23/30; Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ southerly and again parallel with Troy NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS 08830 [phone] *For sale infor-
08830 [phone] Avenue, and part distance through a TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER mation, please visit www.auction.com
SUPREME COURT – COUNTY AJ; 11/9/16/23/30; party wall 100 feet to the northerly side TO LASALLE BANK, NATIONAL or call 800-280-2832
OF KINGS GRAND BANK, N.A., of Avenue M; THENCE easterly along ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR AJ; 11/9/16/23/30;
Plaintiff against MARIE GLEASON, NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court the northerly side of Avenue M, 20 MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE
Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment County Of Kings U.S. Bank NA, feet to a point or place of the BEGIN- INVESTORS TRUST, MORTGAGE Notice of formation of 1236 Halsey
of Foreclosure and Sale entered on successor trustee to Bank of America, NING. TOGETHER with the easement LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFI- LLC, Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY
March 24, 2017. I, the undersigned NA, successor in interest to LaSalle and right of way for the purpose of CATES, SERIES 2006-FM1, Plaintiff on 10/18/2018. Office located in Kings
Referee will sell at public auction in Bank NA, as trustee, on behalf of the a driveway in, to and over a strip of AGAINST SHERYLL MIZELL, et al., County. SSNY has been designated
Room 224 of the Kings County Court- holders of the Washington Mutual land 3 feet 6 inches in width fronting Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment Continued on Page A12