HELD TO A DIFFERENT STANDARD

Ben Dror Yemini, Senior Writer at the Maariv Newspaper in Israel, was born in Tel-Aviv , Israel in 1954, on the eve of Passover.

Hence the name, Ben Dror: the son of freedom..

He studied Humanities and History in Tel Aviv University , and later on he studied Law. After his university studies, he was appointed advisor to the Israeli Minister of Immigration Absorption and then became the spokesman of the Ministry.

In 1984, he began his career as a journalist and essayist and published the book “Political Punch” which deals in a critical way with politics and society in Israel. He worked as a lawyer and was a partner in a law firm. Since 2003 he is the opinion-editor of the daily newspaper Maariv and also published many articles and essays in other journals.

In recent years he researched and published “Industry of lies ” about publications against the State of Israel and its Jewish character, which he considers false. In this framework, he published a series of research articles about the Israeli-Arab conflict in which he examined the issues of genocide, refugees, Palestinian and Arab capital, the status of Israeli Arabs , Multiculturalism , and the status of women. All these articles included a comparative study about each topic.

According to Yemini, “the modern Anti-Zionism is a politically correct Antisemitism “. He argued that the same way Jews were demonized, Israel is demonized, the same way the right of Jews to exist was denied, the right for Self-determination is denied from Israel, the same way Jews were presented as a menace to the world, Israel is presented as a menace to the world. In his comparative studies, he presents the huge gap between the myths against Israel, from one hand, and the real facts, from the other hand.

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During the month of May, 2010, 73 Kurds were killed by the Turks. In Pakistan 764 people were butchered; in Afghanistan 249 and another 50 in Kashmir. The list is long. Muslims butchering Muslims. A matter of routine. In relative terms, the conflict with the smallest number of casualties is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A total of 2,225 people were either killed or murdered in the flash points of conflicts of this sort in the month of May, according to data that were provided by Dr. Yohai Sela of Bar Ilan University. Among them, nine were on board the recent flotilla and three were Hamas operatives who were trying to infiltrate Israel. In the Russian Federation 20 were killed. The United States killed 87 people with targeted killing operations. Allow me to reiterate: this was just last month. It wasn’t a particularly violent month either.

But who’s heard about any of that? The world was silent. The world was flooded with reports about the nine advocates of Islamic Jihad, who were on board one of the ships of hatred in a flotilla of identification with Hamas. The organization that sent them, the IHH, has already been shown to have ties with terrorists. The links between senior IHH activists and terrorists were exposed once again after the flotilla. But the world doesn’t care about that. Obama, whose troops killed children in the course of May-and we will touch upon that forthwith-demanded an investigation of Israel, which is trying to prevent Gaza from turning into a forward base for Iran or al-Qaida. Turkish flags were raised at the left wing demonstration in Tel Aviv. This is the very same Turkey that, even if we forget the massacre of the Armenians, has been massacring Kurds in the past few years, using methods that Israel would never dare to use against the Palestinians. And it is good that it is so. But the flags of Islamist Turkey were raised here and in other demonstrations in the West. The world will ultimately wake up. We can only pray that it doesn’t happen too late.

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The list of the 87 people that the US killed in the month of May includes Mustafa al-Yazid, a senior al-Qaida official. He wasn’t alone. His entire family was killed in the operation. His wife, his three daughters, his grandchildren and other relatives. Extensive searches failed to turn up a single word of criticism against the United States in the mainstream Western media. This is the very same media that for days on end preoccupied itself with the nine shahids from the Turkish branch of global jihad.

What would have happened had Israel assassinated a top Hamas official along with his entire family? If that were to happen now, the entire world would be up in arms. It already happened in the past, when Salah Shehade was assassinated, and Israel was bombarded then as well. A petition was filed to the High Court of Justice, which, to its credit, did not disqualify the use of targeted killing operations, but tried to set guidelines. Ha’aretz stipulated on the basis of documents that were leaked by Anat Kam that the army had violated the restrictions imposed by the High Court of Justice.

That was libelous.

The chief of staff refused to authorize an operation to arrest wanted men if there are “two unidentified persons” in the area.

The US Army, as reported in the past as well, set the bar at the 29 innocent bystanders who could be killed for the sake of killing a top wanted man. Despite all that, according to the industry of lies, the IDF is an army of criminals. Troops from NATO and the US Army are true saints. They are allowed to do as they please.

We must not lose the United States. We haven’t got another friend like it. But precisely because we are talking about a friend, we are entitled to make a few fundamental truths clear to it.