The world's media is suddenly all ecstatic at the fact that
Generalissimo Amram Mitzna has decided to toss his kafiya into the race for
Labor Party Chief. Because Mitzna is to the left of the current Party chief,
"Fuad" Ben-Eliezer, and indeed is to the left of Shimon Peres and Yossi
Beilin, the Jewish anti-survivalist Left is celebrating, and the world's
anti-Jewish media has discovered a new great messiah of hope and peace. If
Mitzna takes the labor chiefdom and then gets elected prime Minister, or so
the media think, he will lead Israel down the Oslo path to its denoument of
complete surrender and national suicide.
Mitzna is just the latest in an endless series of retired generals from
the Israeli military (generals retire in their 40s usually) who then enter
politics, almost always through the Labor Party. Most of these emerge as
ultra-doves and similar lefties.
The worst of these took over leadership in the Labor Party and led the
country into its current lake of blood. Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak were
arguably the two worst prime ministers the country ever had. They were both
ex-generals who led the country to the brink of self-destruction. Many other
leftist ex-generals occupied numerous other power positions in Labor.
Which brings us back to Mitzna. Amram Mitzna is the slick
Clinton-in-a-beard far-leftist mayor of Haifa. He is soft-spoken and
eloquent and may be the dirtiest and most corrupt politician in the country.
Mitzna had been the general in charge of the "central front" during the
"First Intifada" of the late 1980s, when most of the violence was in his
turf. He dealt with it by introducing the New Strategy of defeating
Palestinian savagery by understanding it and showing his good will and
empathy for the rioters. When he left the army, he parachuted into Haifa,
where he had never been a resident, a city that has yet to have its first
non-Labor Party mayor, and ran for mayor.
Hizzonah Mitzna used Haifa as a base to build up a war chest and a
power base, waiting his chance to challenge the Labor Party machine and take
over the party leadership. His chance came when Ehud Barak crashed and
self-imploded.
As mayor of Haifa, Mitzna spent a great deal of time courting the Far
Left and letting everyone know he would be willing to take the country to
new depths of leftist Oslo self-debasement and self-destruction. He is in
favor of holding appeasement talks with the PLO even while the PLO mass
murders Jews. He supports concessions to the PLO beyond even those Yossi
Beilin would offer. His strategy is to challenge the other Labor leaders
from the Left and garner Arab support for his candidacy. In other words, he
is more Ehud Barak than Ehud Barak himself. As mayor, he repeatedly courted
and spoke before the Arab communist party HADASH.
Despite his cultivated speech and smooth manner, Mitzna is a
Tammany Hall politician who runs Haifa like a petit Indonesian gangster or
Third World crony gang leader. His strategy has been to build up a power
base at the expense of Haifa residents by striking corrupt dirty deals with
large contractors and builders having Party connections. In a typical
Mitzna deal, a contractor is granted special zoning variances that allow him
to build a 40 storey tower on a plot of land zoned for 3 stories and so to
pocket $40 million in undeserved profit, or to construct a shopping mall on
land that belongs to the public or is supposed to be a park. In gratitude,
the contractor than quids Mitzna's quo, including funding his political
career. One contractor made so much money on the mall Mitzna allowed him to
build illegally that he could put in a bid for acquiring the Israeli
national telecom company. Mitzna has sought to turn Haifa into a Hong Kong
of 50 storey monsters all to benefit his crony friends.
It is not clear whether Mitzna actually believes in anything other than
getting himself elected. It is not clear whether Israel would survive a
period of Mitzna reign over the country.
Amram Mitzna created a blitz when he anounced his candidacy for Labor
Party chairman. He represents the extreme LEFT, who oppose Zionism,
therefore a Jewish State is distasteful to them but they believe that Arabs
and Jews live in Israel/Palestine under ONE "democratic" Government. (like
all our "despotic democratic neighbours, right?") Does Israel need a
Palestinian mouthpiece clothed as a Jew?
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