Ben-Dror Yemini was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1954. He studied Humanities and History in Tel Aviv University, and later on he studies 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. He worked as a lawyer and was a partner in a law firm. He has worked for the daily newspaper Maariv, and in Spring 2014 began writing for the daily Yedioth Ahronoth. The author of "The Industry of Lies."
The text, titled “The Decade of the Victory for Freedom and Justice“, published in “CounterPunch” magazine, is incredible because it confirms the report's claim: The struggle against Israel has shifted to the arena of 'human rights,' in whose name the campaign to delegitimize Israel is waged. Shaaban's text is seemingly taken from the hundreds of thousands of publications put forward by the industry of lies, which deploys the "rights discourse" in a sophisticated manner. Israel is a terrorist and racist state, which tramples on human rights, and kills "peace activists" in cold blood, and even the Jewish Goldstone, Shaaban pointedly emphasizes, affirms the claims regarding the essence of the State of Israel.
It seems that Shaaban's article proves the central claim on the issue of Israel's de-legitimization: The struggle is not that of the enlightened and the humanists against the dark state. It's the opposite. It's a struggle waged by the dark forces, which took control over the "rights discourse," against the free world in general and Israel in particular. And why? Because the Syrian regime is one of the darkest regimes in the world. Someone should remind Shaaban, the senior Syrian official, of Aref Dalila, Anwar Al-Bunni, Michel Kilo, Mahmoud Issa, and many other intellectuals, which were arrested by Assad's regime, first the father's, then the son's, simply because they demanded slightly more fundamental freedom. Shaaban, in her audacity, evokes the name of Nelson Mandela. Then we'll remind her of Riad Al-Turk, called the "Syrian Nelson Mandela," who spent two decades in jail and was released only after he was dying, and the regime feared he would die in jail. Or of the author Habib Saleh, who was jailed simply for expressing support for Al-Turk. They committed no crime, they didn't blame Syria for "slaughter" or for "crimes against humanity," they didn't demand that boycotts be imposed on their country, and they didn't sign petitions opposing the very right of the Syrian nation to a sovereign state. This happens in Israel. And nobody gets arrested, and it's a good thing that nobody gets arrested. But in Syria, a simple demand for a tiny drop of freedom of expression is obstructed by the strong hand of a ruthless regime. And we still haven't even mentioned one word about the prohibition on the existence of political parties, or the oppression of the Kurdish minority, which can only view Israel's Arab citizens with jealousy. Let's see one of them express one-thousandth of what every Arab politician in Israel says and manage stay one day out of jail. No chance.
This terrible reality doesn’t disturb Shaaban, when she dares to write an article titled “The Decade of the Victory for Freedom and Justice“. What a CHUTZPA. She knows that no one will tell her – excuse me, ma'am, from where do you derive your audacity, to open your mouth, when you represent one of the darkest regimes in the world, which sends people to jail on the basis of their opinions? Because the real coalition today consists of the human rights industry and the dark forces that have usurped control over it. This is a coalition of the industry of lies. This is a the coalition, of the Human Rights Council, that founded the Goldstone Commission. This is a coalition that activates the de-legitimization campaign, and operates between Damascus and Berkeley's campus.
So we have to thank Shaaban. If it wasn't clear before how ridiculous the human rights industry is, the Syrian human rights devotee has made sure to remind us. The good news is that in the Arab world there are real human rights activists. The bad news is that they're in jail, and the Western-based human rights industry, like the left-wing “Counter Punch” magazine, cooperates with Shaaban. Not with those the regime of Shaaban sends to jail.
This article is very important although it will have as much effect as a fart in a hurricane. The very fact that CounterPunch chose not to run it says volumes and no amount of preaching to the choir will make much headway.
The dark forces are allied with each other and they are on the ascendancy. We must fight them with all our strength and never give up.
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