Jewish World Review March 2, 2000 / 25 Adar I, 5760
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Steven Plaut
http://www.jewishworldreview.com --
IT IS HARD not to get emotionally involved, even angry, about the tragedy of Ofra
Haza.
And that tragedy, and I don't use the term loosely, is now all the sadder thanks to the efforts of
Israel's PC cult to hijack it and exploit it for AIDS disinformation.
Ofra Haza was more than merely one of Israel's best singers. Her
life was itself a fascinating saga and commentary on Israeli society.
Born in the back alleys of Tel Aviv's worst slum, Haza rose from the poverty of
her underprivileged Yemenite street to become a musical superstar. She
became in many ways the best musical representation of Israel, singing without
embarrassment old folk songs, music of "Beautiful Land of Israel",
religious music, refusing to be dragged down the road of noisy rock and roll.
And she died of AIDS.
What had become an open secret over the past week has now been published by the yellow journalists of Haaretz, Israel's self-declared paper for the thinking Israeli.
Haza was apparently infected by her husband. The same press that thinks the whole world has the
right to know that she died of AIDS has not come clean about how the husband picked up AIDS, keeping a discrete PC silence. But there are only a very few ways it is possible to get AIDS and he got it in one of them.
In contrast with the "lady" who used to be married to Prince Charles, Ofra was a true princess of tragedy and charm and beauty --- but with no song by Elton John in her memory. And the ultimate tragedy is that today, with the family still sitting in mourning, her death is already being exploited
by the forces of PC terror in Israel to diffuse AIDS disinformation.
You see, screams the AIDS lobby, we have been telling you all along that ANYONE can get AIDS, and so it is NOT a disease of the homosexually promiscuous and of drug users. EVEN Ofra Haza can get it.
While in its early years a few people got AIDS from transfusions of contaminated blood,
such cases have become virtually non-existent thereafter.
In short, the "stereotype" of how people get AIDS is correct and the PC cult is incorrect.
No one gets AIDS from the toilet seat, despite the enormous PC propaganda
machine here trying to convince people otherwise.
Not "everyone" is at risk of getting AIDS, in fact most people are
not.
In recent years Israel has spent much of its national public health
budget on AIDS disinformation, TV commercials and billboards warning
that everyone is at risk of getting AIDS, condom demonstrations in high
schools, condomats everywhere.
All so that homosexuals can cruise and engage in promiscuous sex without the
"stigma" associated with such activity.
As I said, it is hard not to get emotionally involved, even angry, about the tragedy of Ofra
The tragedy of Ofra Haza: Exploiting the dead for political gain has spread to Israel
She defied the pop establishment, carried a book of Psalms with her
everywhere, observed Jewish tradition with pride. Her dark-skinned beauty and
innocence were as if out of the Song of Songs. She appeared around the
world in traditional Yemenite dress, popularizing Israeli music for the
Nations.
Except AIDS IS indeed the disease of the homosexually promiscuous and
drug users. Almost the only way people get AIDS is from having anal sex
without a condom, from sharing needles in shooting drugs, or when women have sex
with men who got AIDS in one of the above two ways. Men getting it from
infected women are rarer but not impossible, mainly from prostitutes (although those who frequent prostitutes also get AIDS from these via the above two channels, not necessary from "normal" sex).
In any case,
the jewel of Israeli pop culture was destroyed by AIDS. And PC AIDS
disinformation financed by the Israeli government will continue to lie
about how AIDS is transmitted and so will make more such tragedies likely.
Steven Plaut is a professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of
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