speaking out, railing against the systems of oppression, or expressing as a mother or daughter or aunt, well, in AmeriKKKa, it’s all about keeping the “colorful” anti-USA stuff within the lines!
Son of a mother. Of course, Zionists and Jews, mostly, control the narrative. Here, though:
The live-streaming and subsequent videos of US active duty airman Aaron Bushnell’s extreme sacrifice in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Sunday 25 February 2024 should make us reflect on the complicity of our governments in the on-going genocide being perpetrated by Israel on the hapless Palestinian people. 30,000 dead – overwhelmingly civilians, women and children.
He’s someone’s son, man, a mother’s fucking son!
Hamas Statement
We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), express our heartfelt condolences and our full solidarity with the family and friends of the U.S. pilot Aaron Bushnell, whose name has been immortalized as a defender of humanitarian values and the plight of the oppressed Palestinian people who are suffering due to the U.S. administration and its unjust policies, like the U.S. activist Rachel Corrie who was crushed by a Zionist bulldozer in 2003 in Rafah, the same city for which Bushnell paid for with his life to pressure his country’s government to prevent the criminal Zionist army from attacking it and committing massacres and violations in it.
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden bears full responsibility for the death of Aaron Bushnell due to its policy that supports the Nazi Zionist entity in the genocide war against our Palestinian people, as he gave his life in order to highlight the massacres and Zionist ethnic cleansing against our people in the Gaza Strip.
The heroic pilot Aaron Bushnell will remain immortal in the memory of our Palestinian people and the free people of the world, and a symbol of the spirit of global humanitarian solidarity with our people and their just cause.
The tragic incident that cost pilot Bushnell his life is an expression of the growing anger among the people in the U.S. who reject their country’s policy that contributes to the killing and genocide of our people, and rejects their government’s violation of global humanitarian values, by providing cover to ensure the impunity of the Nazi entity and its leaders from punishment and accountability.
The go fund me account was taken down: “Aaron’s commitment to serving his country in the US Air Force reflects his deep sense of duty and honor,” the page read. “His final act was a reflection of his unwavering belief in justice and his dedication to raising awareness about the struggles faced by the Palestinian people. He saw their plight as a grave injustice and felt compelled to take a drastic action to bring attention to their suffering.”
More fucking humanity from the administrations of the two schools he was attending than fucking mother fucking MOTHER Jill “Genocide Fucker” Biden!
“The Nauset Public Schools is heartbroken to learn of the untimely death of one of our former students, Aaron Bushnell,” the statement said. “Our school community is saddened by Mr. Bushnell’s death and we offer our condolences to his family and friends.”
He also enrolled online at Southern New Hampshire University in 2023 to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and was pre-registered for the upcoming term that begins next week, the school said.
“We are deeply saddened by the news of Aaron’s passing and the SNHU community sends its deepest condolences to Aaron’s family and friends,” the school said in a statement to WCVB.
More mothers grieving: “In December, a person self-immolated outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta and used gasoline as an accelerant, according to Atlanta’s fire authorities. A Palestinian flag was found at the scene, and the act was believed to be one of “extreme political protest.”
Fucking Potters USA Media Grave for Aaron? Nameless? “Authorities did not release the protester’s name, age or gender. The person set up outside the building in the city’s midtown neighborhood on Friday afternoon and used gasoline as an accelerant, Atlanta Fire Chief Roderick Smith said.
The protester was in critical condition, with burn injuries to the body. A security guard that tried to stop the person was burned on his wrist and leg, Smith said.”
So, the pigs get to go into her house? She committed suicide. LEAVE her fucking belongings alone.
Bushnell’s death came approximately three months after another protester was found burning in front of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 1.
That woman, who hasn’t been named, is still in the hospital in critical condition after suffering second- and third-degree burns to 40% of her body, a spokesperson with the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department told The U.S. Sun on Monday.
The Atlanta Police Department got word about the fire at around 12:30 pm and rushed to the building to find her severely injured, but still breathing, according to an incident report obtained by The U.S. Sun.
A security officer tried to help the woman and also suffered burns to his hands and arms.
He was treated and released from the hospital, the fire department said.
Two gas cans and the remnants of a Palestine flag were found at the scene.
Detectives searched the woman’s car and found only bags of household trash in the trunk.
Later that day, they got a search warrant for an apartment.
Nobody was in the apartment and officials found a Quran in the bedroom along with an Arabic dictionary, a Hebrew dictionary, and a “Drug use for grown-ups” book on a shelf among other books.
A laptop computer and a thumb drive were both seized before officials left and locked the doors.
[Listen — Yes, dirty marble-mouthed British announcer, so get your own fucking vomit bag!]
Mothers, and WOmen’s History Month, another Hallmark bullshit month of bullshit watered down bullshit. See my Op_ed in the local rag, out TODAY, below, reprinted.
First,
I was born a protester … My mother had to go to the school a lot and talk to the principal.
— Dorli Rainey
I am being jailed because I have advocated change for equality, justice, and peace. … I stand where thousands of abolitionists, escaped slaves, workers and political activists have stood for demanding justice, for refusing to either quietly bear the biting lash of domination or to stand by silently as others bear the same lash.
— Marilyn Buck, at her 1990 sentencing (epigram in Linda Ford’s book, Women Politicals in America)
Here:
Here, early on in her book, Linda lays out the types of protests and dissent which have been embraced by “women agitators who have become political prisoners.”
- Anti-capitalist – This would include women labor organizers. It encompasses socialists and anarchists, who have long worked against the profit-based capitalist/government system, working to improve the lot and the rights of workers, and so have frequently run afoul of the authorities accordingly.
- Anti–patriarchal – Feminist activist, primarily in the early and late 20thCentury, have used protests and civil disobedience in their critique of a male-dominated, militaristic society which has sometimes meant going up against police and government officials – and jail time.
- Anti-imperialist and authoritarian/anti-war – Women have long worked as pacifist and anti-war protesters. Caught up in war hysteria, they have historically been jailed for their efforts, whether World War I, the Vietnam War or the invasion of Iraq. Sometimes they have been victims of political decisions that labeled them enemies for their relation to external foes, as with Japanese- American or Muslim-American women. They have fought against US wars and the authoritarian nature of American government foreign policy, and also against imperialism/authoritarianism in its domestic policy, particularly toward African-Americans, but also against Native-Americans, and more broadly, to protest the abuse of the poor by elites.
- Anti-white supremacy — Women who have been civil rights activists, whether anti-lynching/white violence, Martin Luther King marchers, or Black Panthers, have been punished for resisting racism which has persisted in this society since its inception. The recent protests against anti-black police brutality have resulted in very harsh reprisals. Women have also paid dearly for supporting the American Indian movement, and the Puerto Rican independence movement. And now women who are Muslim activists or defenders, or even in some cases because they are Muslim, in a time of an amorphous war on terror, have also been imprisoned by the American government.
These categories are touchstones for illustrating the history of dissent that has created this political class of heroines, Women Politicals. Today, however, in a hyper-distracted society and one dovetailed to many superficial things created by hyper-consumerism, with the white dominant Western Civilization normalizing war, destruction and theft, I would be hard pressed to find that many Americans willing to engage in self-reflection and self-condemnation through the very catharsis of reading Linda’s book. Causes they can relate to? Seeing these women dissenters as both leaders of thought and necessary people of liberation in democracy?
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Read your fucking history. Do not believe the war drum fucking skirt wearing fake mothers of the Military Industrial Complex — Lords of War, Funded by Taxes!
I’m now thinking about Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. I ended up in Spokane, May 2001, and quickly found out that Spokane, Washington, was where free speech was officially banned by the city fathers and thug cops. She was there, as a 19-year-old in December 1909, and arrested and jailed. She went to lumber camps in Montana and Washington, speaking at IWW meetings. She stated she fell in love with her country, calling it,
… a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people – It could be paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.
She wrote about the experience in Spokane in the Industrial Worker and The Socialist, two journal articles that inspired other protests to the authorities. She wrote about being safer with others locked up, rather than being alone. In Spokane, a jailer approached her at night, and while all the other mostly prostitute women had complied, Flynn told him to take his hands off her and he left her alone. Her article “resulted in matrons for women prisoners in Spokane.” She was acquitted after two trials of “conspiracy to incite men to disobey the law.”
By the age of 15, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a committed socialist and was arrested, with her father, for public speaking without a permit. They were finally released on bail at 2 am. At their trial, the judge advised Elizabeth to go back to school for a while longer before she became a teacher. (Ford)
Defiant, she read the theories of socialists Upton Sinclair and Edward Bellamy and of anarchist Peter Kropotkin, as well as delving deeply into Marx and Engels.
Here’s what Flynn said at age 73 in 1963:
“I was a convict, a prisoner without rights, writing a censored letter. But my head was unbowed. Come what may, I was a political prisoner and proud of it, at one with some of the noblest of humanity, who had suffered for conscience’s sake. I felt no shame, no humiliation, no consciousness of guilt. To me my number 11710 was a badge of honor.
Being a member of the Communist Party of America (CPUSA), for Flynn and others was about following through with American roots and American ideals. Defending constitutional rights made them good Americans. It was Flynn who supported her constitutional right to political belief and free speech, yet these arguments were for naught, as she said: “in the United States – boasted citadel of democracy – we were prisoners for opinion under a fascist-like thought control act.” Ethel Rosenberg was not defended by the CP, until after her death row orders were imminent. The CP defendants were “arguing their Americanness, when the Rosenbergs were in jail after being convicted of being totally un-American and dedicated to the downfall of the USA.”
Read my part two of Linda Ford’s book analysis: Long Live the Armed Struggle!
Paul Haeder: Exclusion and isolation are the tools of a fascist society, as these female politicals’ lives as activists, both peaceful and militantly violent, demonstrate over the course of four hundred years of this country’s white history.
March is Women’s History Month
By Paul Haeder
Another March just another month to pay lip-service to mother?
Of course, the womb is the source of all life. Don’t think sideways on that one. Test-tube babies? Still, implanted egg into the womb, the female Homo Sapiens womb.
However, even in 2024, the mother, aunt, granny, nieces, sisters and daughters have not “come that far, baby.”
We might not have Rush Limbaugh around anymore calling any strong, independent woman a “feminazi,” but we still have an active war on women.
Does anyone think that policies that encourage babies starving and dying in Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Gaza — with USA-made bombs — is not anti-woman? Who tends those tiny bodies, and who tends those disabled kiddos? Who teaches those children in the rubble of classrooms? Who makes the naan and pita and bread?
War is anti-woman, which in turn is anti-humanity. Even in Vietnam, where I was in 1994 and 1996 as a journalist and science survey assistant, the reality was that those “bombs bursting in air” during America’s war against the Vietnamese still resonate in mother’s milk.
Agent Orange translates into a deadly gift that keeps on giving. Decades after those herbicides were sprayed by the U.S., mother’s milk registers 15 times the “acceptable” PCB (a carcinogen by-product of Agent Orange) levels.
One major hero for me, at age 13, was a powerful figure in my life then and 54 years later: Rachel Carson. She’s one woman emblematic of the power of the mind — in her case, the scientific mind — and the ethical core of a woman who believed in principles: “at first do no harm” and “the precautionary principle.”
Again, it might sound hippy-dippy, from Carson: “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
However, her amazing book, “Silent Spring” (1962), warned of the dangers to all natural systems from the misuse of chemical pesticides such as DDT, and questioned the scope and direction of modern science, initiated the contemporary environmental movement.
Carson was vilified by the big boys in chemical, pesticide and herbicide boardrooms, calling her every manner of name. Reality, in her words:
“As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life — a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no ‘high-minded orientation’” no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.”
Go to Story Corps for biographical enlightenment on women in history, not all so famous: “Stories to Honor Women’s History Month!”
But I go more into radical foundational ideas around women and this so-called “women’s history” month: I read a newsletter called, “Off Our Backs,” by feminists in the 1970s.
“The name ‘off our backs’ was chosen because it reflects our understanding of the dual nature of the women’s movement. Women need to be free of men’s domination to find their real identities, redefine their lives, and fight for the creation of a society in which they can lead decent lives as human beings. At the same time, women must become aware that there would be no oppressor without the oppressed, that we carry the responsibility for withdrawing the consent to be oppressed. We must strive to get off our backs, and with the help of our sisters to oppose and destroy that system which fortifies the supremacy of men while exploiting the mass for the profit of the few.”
I have had all strong women in my family: grandmothers on both sides leaving UK and Germany to deal with harsh Saskatchewan and South Dakota winters and hardscrabble living; Scottish aunts who ended up emigrating to U.S. and opening up a well-known restaurant in Massachusetts; a sister who is a magnificent leader of social services in Arizona; a daughter who learned early on photography and empathy; a niece who just got her MD credentials; a wife who heads up recruiting for a high tech battery company.
I teach writing, and over the decades, many of my classes were populated seven to one with females. I head up a class currently at Oregon Coast Community College grappling with memoirs, essays and poems. I’ve asked them to try and put something forward for this Lincoln County Leader. It is intimidating to let the public know your opinion.
Women’s History Month also includes those stories that do not end up in K-12 venues. I reviewed Linda Ford’s “Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart” (2018). The struggle and defiance and the powerful resistance of women have gone unreported, or misreported, in this United States of Amnesia as Gore Vidal pegged this country. As Ford states in her opening, her male colleague was completely unaware of most of the history of deeply committed women, who became political prisoners because of their social and environmental justice work.”
Talk about the role of women in history and current unfolding history. Read between the lines. Four out of five heads of offensive weapons companies are women. No, we have not come a long way, baby!
Paul Haeder is a novelist, journalist, educator and author of “Wide Open Eyes: Surfacing from Vietnam,” Cirque Press.
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Yes, Lesbian. Long Live Rachel’s memory.
Hear the words of Rachel Carson, 47, written to her lover Dorothy Freeman, 56, in 1954:
“… I have been remembering that my very first message to you was a Christmas greeting. Christmas, 1952. I knew then that the letter to which it replied was something special, that stood out from the flood of other mail, but I don’t pretend I had any idea of its tremendous importance in my life. I didn’t know then that you would claim my heart — that I would freely give you a lifetime’s love and devotion. I had at least some idea of that when Christmas came again, in 1953. Now I know, and you know. And as I have given, I have received — the most precious of all gifts. Thank you darling, with all my heart.” (pp. 66-67, Always, Rachel)
Or the words of Dorothy Freeman:
“How sweet to find your clothes mixed in with mine, dear — that brought you near. I’ve wanted you so when I looked at the moon, when the tide was high; when the water made wild sounds in the night; when we went tide-pooling; when the anemones were exposed for a few seconds as the water rushed away from the cave; but most of all, darling, when I went back to the veeries —” (p. 117, Always, Rachel)
Rachel and Dorothy
On the eve of a long-awaited rendezvous in a Manhattan hotel, Dorothy wrote this note to Rachel:
“New York — darling — a week from this moment I shall be with you if all goes well — and it must! Yes, I think we can be casual if we meet at the desk — just a chilly glance I’ll give you and say, ‘Glad you made it…'” (p. 69, Always, Rachel)
When Elizabeth Gurley Flynn went to see the great IWW songwriter Joe Hill in Salt Lake City while he was awaiting execution for a crime he didn’t commit, Joe dedicated a song to Flynn called “The Rebel Girl”:
Yes, her hands may be harden’d from labor
And her dress may not be very fine;
But a heart in her bosom is beating
That is true to her class and her kind.
And the grafters in terror are trembling
When her spite and defiance she’ll hurl.
For the only and thoroughbred lady
Is the Rebel Girl.
And this is exactly how Elizabeth Gurley Flynn deserves to be remembered.
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End Note: Leave it to the fucking Jewish New York Post to stir the fucking pot. Do they ever ever call people living and working in Isra-HELL, all religious and ideological extremists? Betcha no.
Ahh, the warped mothers of religious cults, Judaism or Christianity?
Another former member in the 1980s, Bonnie Zampino, 54, told the Washington Post,
“A lot of us that got out are very much into social justice, trying to defend those who don’t or can’t defend themselves, because that is what we went through.’’
The Community of Jesus was tied to a school in Ontario that had been accused in a lawsuit of creating “an environment of control, intimidation and humiliation that fostered and inflicted enduring harms on its students,’’ according to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation investigation in 2021.
The CBC claimed it uncovered the school’s “strong connections to a mysterious and abusive Christian cult in Cape Cod, Mass.,’’ referring to the Community of Jesus of which Bushnell and his family belong.
The suit against the now-defunct school was eventually settled for $10.8 million, the CBC reported.
Community for Jesus is said to have been founded by two women in the 1960s. They were known as “the Mothers’’ and were replaced with new leaders after their deaths.
The group’s Web site says it has nearly 300 members, most of whom live on its compound in Cape Cod. The community includes “celibate Brothers and Sisters, and Families and Single Adults that live in privately owned homes surrounding the church,’’ the site says. (US Airman Aaron Bushnell who fatally set self on fire raised in ‘abusive Christian cult’ said to engage in mind control)
Never ever will the Jewish New York Post run images of Jewish Extremists!!
Ahh, blurring his face? WHY?
Jewish or Zionist or Israel-LOVING New York Post: In 1976, Rupert Murdoch, creator of Fox News, bought the Post for US$30.5 million. Since 1993, the Post has been owned by News Corporation and its replacement, News Corp. Its distribution ranked 4th in the US in 2018. Founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, the New York Post has been telling stories for over 200 years]
Fucking Murdoch, fucking Jews in Media, fucking Israel Hell. Up is down, Murdoch is Zionist, Jewish publishers and such, well, what is “half-Jewish” anyways? Oh shit, another Jew working for Guardian explaining to dumb goyim: Rupert Murdoch and the Jews: Michael Wolff
Whoops.
Rupert Murdoch’s unchaperoned tweeting was bound to get him into trouble. On Saturday, he slipped into an antisemitic usage: “Why is Jewish-owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?”
What Murdoch was doing was trying to channel the right wing’s ardent support of Israel by challenging the left wing’s more critical view of Israeli brinksmanship – particularly as Israel appears on the verge of another invasion of Gaza. In other words, or so Murdoch seemed to be close to saying, Jews are liberals, and so untrustworthy that they would even betray Israel.
From the biographer’s point of view, this continues to be a curious and open-ended question: what does Murdoch really think about the Jews?
Murdoch’s inopportune phrasing also goes to the larger question of the right’s odd relationship to Israel, and its own feelings, more generally, about the Jews. Does being pro-Israel absolve you of your suspicion about Jews? Can you be an antisemite and still support Israel? (More provocatively: does Israel, in some sense, depend on the support of rightwing American antisemites?)
We are back in the weird nomenclature of antisemitism. What does “Jewish” as a modifier actually mean?
In this instance, I imagine Murdoch means the New York Times, which has been less than gung-ho about Israel charging into Gaza. I really can’t think of what other press he might remotely have in mind as being “Jewish”. (Various Jewish reporter pundits immediately claimed he was talking about them, but he seemed clearly to pin it on “owners” – which is the classic antisemitic construction. And, indeed, Murdoch apologized to the reporters who might have thought this – but not to the owners.)
To describe the Times this way is both quizzical, and we can assume, pointed. Because, as it happens, the Times isn’t, per se, “Jewish”. True, the Sulzbergers, who control the company, were once a prominent Jewish family. But the Times’ chairman and publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, is half-Jewish (on his father’s side) and was raised as an Episcopalian. Murdoch knows this full well. So what he is saying is something more like “Jewish-tainted press”, which, all in all, seems more, not less, antisemitic.
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Read this fucking piece of Zionist, Pro-Pro Israel shit. He happens to be Jewish?
One problem with this picture is that more than a few of the doctrinaire and Left-leaning protestors are Jewish. A friend’s half-Jewish daughter who has availed herself of both a free birthright trip to Israel, and, as well, a summer study break sponsored by the Palestinians, has become a bitter and emotional social-media critic of Israel’s “war on Gaza”, adopting the language of rage and doubtlessness: Israelis — Jews — are colonisers and occupiers. The Palestinian cause has won the social media war: Israel is the unholy demon.
The intellectual point is that Jewish suffering, including the epochs of open anti-Semitism, is no more unique than other kinds of suffering. And, proportionally, Palestinian suffering is now greater. In this new view, the Palestinians are the real Jews, beleaguered people historically abused by the powerful, so how can those defending Palestinians against their gross and evil oppressers — who, in an ideal outcome, many Palestinians hope to see eradicated — be anti-Semitic? This now appears to be a reasonable enough opinion among the world’s new fair-minded — as well as bewildering in its notion of history to anyone who is Jewish (or, perhaps, Jewish of a certain age).
Fucking Michael Wolff’s people: Settlers attack Palestinian villages after West Bank killing
Wolff’s people: Israel First, Mothership, Isra-Hell.
Settler groups also gathered on Wednesday between the villages of Kobar and Deir Nitham, west of Ramallah, as well as near the village of Beit Einun and the settlement of Kiryat Arba in Hebron.
Israeli settlements are fortified Jewish-only housing complexes built on Palestinian land in violation of international law.
Between 600,000 and 750,000 Israeli settlers live in at least 250 illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem. The majority were built by the Israeli government, while many outposts were retroactively legalised under Israeli law as settlements.
Earlier this month, the World Zionist Organization’s (WZO) Settlement Division, which falls under the direct control of the Israeli government, announced plans to spend $8.5m to develop dozens of outposts in a push to legalise them.
Look at Jewish State of Catholic Zionism Biden’s “unstately department:
The State Department, in a statement, identified the four settlers and described the accusations against them:
- David Chai Chasdai allegedly led a riot in Huwara in which a Palestinian civilian was killed.
- Einan Tanjil is accused of assaulting Palestinian farmers and Israeli activists.
- Shalom Zicherman was reportedly filmed assaulting Israeli activists in the West Bank.
- Yinon Levi regularly led a group of settlers from the Meitarim Farm outpost who assaulted Palestinian and Bedouin civilians and threatened them with more violence if they did not leave their homes.
Wolff’s fucking Israel: Link.
- A group of 55 international journalists have signed an open letter demanding that Israel grant the press “free and unfettered access” to Gaza so that they can report on the war. Israel has largely denied reporters access to Gaza, where many Palestinian journalists have been killed.
- Al-Awda Hospital, the last functional hospital in northern Gaza, has suspended operations, citing severe shortages of fuel and basic medical supplies. Israel has consistently blocked large portions of medical aid from reaching northern Gaza.
- Project Hope has said that 21 percent of pregnant women treated by the humanitarian group in Gaza over the last three weeks are suffering from malnutrition, which can be especially dangerous for pregnant women and newborn children.
- Israeli forces have continued to trade fire with the armed group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which said it struck Israeli targets in the disputed territory of the Shebaa Farms. Israel carried out a series of attacks in southern Lebanon earlier in the day.
Women’s History Month in Israel is Racist Zionist White Supremacist Female (sic) MONTH. Israel: self-proclaimed ‘racist’ politician nominated as New York consul general.
Golan made a political name for herself by denouncing African refugees in Israel, calling them “Muslim infiltrators”, criminals and rapists. She said many have Aids, suggested they were spreading HIV by working as waiters, and demanded they be expelled from the country.
“If I am racist for wanting to defend my country and for wanting to protect my basic rights and security, then I’m a proud racist,” she said at a political rally in 2013 as a member of the far-right Jewish Power party, a descendent of the Kach party that was outlawed under Israeli anti-terrorism laws.
Golan? Burn yourself up to a crisp, please racist Israeli Jew.
Paul Haeder, Author 