Dutch soccer fans chant ‘Hamas, Jews to the gas’ before match against Ajax
More harmless anti-Zionism
Media adopts canard Israel denies vaccine to Palestinians - "Twitter accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers have been spreading the libel that Israel, the world leader in vaccinating its population against COVID-19, is intentionally leaving the Palestinians to languish in the middle of a pandemic. But that’s Twitter; anyone with an opinion can express it, even if it’s not based on facts.Yet, in recent days, supposedly respectable news sites that are supposed to check facts and be accountable to the truth are spreading the same bile as Iranian Holocaust-denial cartoon contest runner-up Carlos Latuff in that example from the ADL article.“As Israel leads in COVID-19 vaccines per capita, Palestinians still await shots,” the NPR headline reads, implying some kind of correlation... You have to get halfway through the Guardian story before you reach the following: “Despite the delay, the [Palestinian] Authority has not officially asked for help from Israel. Coordination between the two sides halted last year after the Palestinian president cut off security ties for several months.”In other words, the Palestinian leadership refused to even talk to Israel when the latter was ordering vaccine doses, let alone coordinate a complex rollout operation. Before that, the UN’s official news site published an article titled: “COVID-19: UN envoy hails strong Israel-Palestine cooperation.”... Israel had been willing to help before the Palestinians cut ties... As Khaled Abu Toameh reported in this paper two weeks ago, “The Palestinians do not expect Israel to sell them, or purchase on their behalf, the vaccine from any country... the Palestinians will soon receive nearly four million Russian-made vaccines against COVID-19. The PA, with the help of the World Health Organization, has managed to secure the vaccine from other sources.” The PA’s current assessment is that they will begin to receive doses of the Sputnik V and AstraZeneca vaccines in February. This is comparable with neighboring countries in the region, including those with major Palestinian populations such as Lebanon and Jordan, which have not rolled out vaccination operations, and with many other poor countries participating in the WHO vaccine aid program. HERE ARE some other pertinent facts: The Oslo Accords, though a group of interim agreements and not a final-status peace treaty, are widely considered an international legally binding agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. They stipulate that the Palestinian Authority is responsible for healthcare, including vaccinations, for Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and Gaza... Israel is actually already vaccinating Palestinians – the ones in east Jerusalem. They are not citizens of Israel, just residents, but their healthcare is under Israel’s purview per the Oslo Accords, and those who are 60 or older or have a chronic condition can be vaccinated in Israeli HMOs in their neighborhoods. Israel plans to vaccinate even more Palestinians who are in Israeli prisons.More facts: Israel’s vaccine operation has run in predominately Arab areas in Israel from day one. Out of a concern that not enough eligible Israeli Arabs have been showing up at the vaccination sites, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited two Arab cities in recent days. (Admittedly, this dovetails with his political strategy of trying to attract Arab votes to Likud.)In other words, there isn’t some kind of policy of ethno-religious discrimination. The opposite is true: The government is actively trying to encourage the minority population, Arab-Israelis, to get vaccinated."
It's ironic: all those who claim Israel must provide the Palestinians with vaccines just want them to be dependent on Israel, perhaps forever. This will help with their agenda as it will give them yet another angle of attack
Palestinians give first vaccines after Israel shares supply - "The Palestinian Health Ministry announced the start of the campaign in a statement, saying Health Minister Mai al-Kaila received a first dose along with several front-line medical workers. The statement did not acknowledge that Israel provided the vaccines."
Israel haters can continue to pretend that Israel didn't give the Palestinians any vaccines, even though it's not their responsibility, then
Thread by @ShMMor on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "In a time of heightened anxiety, it's natural for all us to seek comfort in things that make us feel most safe, most at home, most ourselves. For the @guardian, that means running a piece of gross antisemitism masquerading as progressive anti-racism...
This is a sub-genre that the @guardian particularly excels at: the false story of Israeli medical malpractice which is supposed to prove the innate moral rot of the Jewish state. It always has the same three elements:
1) Crazy Jewish doctors doing something fishy
2) Broad hints that their motivations are racist supremacy
3) Heroic humanitarians bravely standing up to the nefarious Jewish plot.
Previous examples include 2009 "Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs" (for which they ran a very dodgy & partial correction), 2013 lies on "forced contraception" of Ethiopian women by Israeli doctors, 2014 on "confirmed targeting" of hospitals in Gaza...2010 reporting on Jenny Tonge's lies about an Israeli rescue team harvesting body parts of Haitian earthquake victims that never clarified she was lying but makes sure we know she is not antisemitic.
Even by those standards, this is a remarkably dishonest article. The headline makes it sound like Israeli authorities are out distributing vaccines but actively "excluding" Palestinians, presumably blocking them at the schoolhouse door or something like that... This piece of “journalism” doesn’t just fail to report on the Israeli side; it fails to report on the Palestinian side too. The Palestinians are just props for a projection of anxieties and racist fantasies about Jews. In fact, there is very little to report on the Covid story in the Palestinian territories, so this story reports on a nothing added to a nothing on top of a nothing. The covid situation in the West Bank & Gaza is far from crisis proportions. In terms of both infections and fatalities, the situation is significantly worse in Israel, and much worse in the UK (also slightly worse in Lebanon & Jordan). Many reasons for this, but one is that the Palestinians have one of the better health systems in the region. That’s the 1st nothing. The 2nd nothing is the vaccinations. Not many have occurred yet, but this is equally true in almost every single country in the world, including many in western Europe... There’s a third nothing: Israel’s role. Israel has not impeded in any way deliveries of vaccines to the West Bank or Gaza. It has facilitated them throughout the autonomy years and before, even in the peak periods of conflict. There is absolutely nothing to indicate that Israel will fall short of its obligations once covid vaccines start arriving. Nothing. Not a hint. Moreoever, Israel has offered to help the PA on this issue, but these offers have been (publicly at least) rejected, as the @guardian story gets around to pointing out somewhere also near the bottom... What obstacles do exist in the Palestinian Territories are of a more prosaic sort, not unique to the Palestinians at all, and have nothing to do with Israel, so they simply merit no attention. These include a Palestinian decision to not work with the Pfizer vaccine, because of concerns about the cold storage requirements, and a high rate of vaccine skepticism in Palestinian public opinion (something which surely wouldn’t be helped if it was Israelis making the injections). The legal obligation of the Palestinian Authority, not Israel, for administering health & vaccinations is mentioned in a briefly dismissive way referencing “1990’s-era interim agreements.” These would be the international accords that are the entire basis for the existence of a Palestinian government. A bit like saying the House of Commons legislations is based on “an early 18th century act of union.” In typically revisionist style, the article continues, “those deals envisioned a fuller peace agreement within five years, an event that never occurred,” without mentioning that this is because the Palestinian side rejected multiple peace offers & preferred to pursue suicidal terrorism instead, throughout which it had the unwavering support and understanding of the Guardian’s reporters & editors... So what is the story here exactly? Not something happening in the Palestinian territories. Not something Israel has done. It’s a moral outrage at something Israel has not done, which is bizarre, because nearly everyone in the world has not done the exact same thing... What Israel didn’t do was implement a vaccination program in the West Bank and Gaza similar to the one that its domestic health care system allowed it to administer at home. It did not send its army into Palestinian cities, towns, and villages, occupy clinics, commandeer private medical records, and gather Palestinian citizens and inject them them one-by-one with needles that are said by Israeli authorities to contain a vaccine. It is surely a comment on what the “Palestinian cause” does and means for its western adherents that the hue and cry on this was bubbling on social media all week not from Palestinians or their officials but from assorted activists and bigots in the west suffering under the intense stress of watching Israel do something good and not knowing how to reconcile that with the burning theological commitment they have to the proposition that everything Israeli is touched by sin. Inevitably the Palestinian leadership will come around and adopt this approach for propaganda purposes, but it is still interesting to see what they were saying before, like this from a month ago. "
EnGardeAgain! (@EnGardeAgain) - "Frankly your comparison is abject. Gaza has a goddam open border with Egypt and an open sea access. If Gaza was a prison or as you 🤮put it a “concentration camp” then how did the inmates get their stockpile of missiles miss congeniality? #dumbasarock #AmYsraelChai"
Queers for Palestine? - "Of all the slogans chanted and displayed at anti-Israel rallies over the past month, surely “Queers for Palestine” ranks as the most oxymoronic. It is the motto of the San Francisco–based Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT), a group advocating financial divestment from the Jewish State. QUIT contends that Zionism is racism, regularly demonstrates at gay pride marches, organizes with far-right Muslim organizations, and successfully lobbied the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission to boycott the 2006 World Pride Conference due to its location that year in Jerusalem. What makes QUIT oxymoronic is that their affinity for Palestine isn’t reciprocated. There may be queers for Palestine, but Palestine certainly isn’t for queers, either in the livable or empathetic sense. Like all Islamic polities, the Palestinian Authority systematically harasses gay people. Under the cloak of rooting out Israeli “collaborators,” P.A. officials extort, imprison, and torture gays. But Palestinian oppression of homosexuality isn’t merely a matter of state policy, it’s one firmly rooted in Palestinian society, where hatred of gays surpasses even that of Jews. Last October, a gay Palestinian man with an Israeli lover petitioned Israel’s high court of justice for asylum, claiming that his family threatened to kill him if he did not “reform.”... And that’s only in the relatively benign West Bank. The Gaza Strip, which has stagnated under the heel of Hamas’s Islamofascist rule since 2007, is an even more dangerous place for gays, “a minority of perverts and the mentally and morally sick,” in the words of a senior Hamas leader. As in Iran, Hamas’s patron and the chief sponsor of international terrorism, even the mere suspicion of homosexuality will get one killed in Gaza, being hurled from the roof of a tall building the method of choice. It’s these facts that make the notion of “Queers for Palestine” so bizarre. Contrary to what some gay activists might have you believe, there really are not that many political subjects where one’s sexuality ought influence an opinion. Aside from the obvious issues related to civic equality (recognition of partnerships, open service in the military, etc.), how does homosexuality imply a particular viewpoint on complicated matters like Social Security Reform, health care policy, or the war in Iraq? The answer, at least for some of those on the left side of the spectrum, is one found in the early rhetoric of the Gay Liberation Front, the leading gay rights organization to emerge after the Stonewall riots. The GLF was, in the words of historian Paul Berman, the “gay wing of the revolutionary alliance” that in the 1970s challenged the liberal consensus and came to be known as the “New Left.” GLF leaders, for instance, played an instrumental role in the creation of the Venceremos Brigade, which dispatched starry-eyed American radicals to pick sugar cane in Cuba as a show of solidarity with the regime of Fidel Castro. (Like the Palestinian Authority, Communist Cuba didn’t exactly return the kindness of its gay sympathizers; for decades it interned gays and HIV-positive individuals in prison labor camps). The GLF allied itself with a whole host of radical organizations (like the murderous Black Panthers) whose role in the struggle for gay equality was tenuous at best. And the very name of the GLF was adopted from the National Liberation Front, the moniker of the Vietnamese Communists. Why does this history matter now? Although you will find few out-and-out Marxists in the leadership of gay organizations today, most gay activists still view the world with the same sort of “oppression” complex epitomized by the early radicals who led the GLF. They believe gay people to be “oppressed,” and hold that any other group claiming the same victim status should earn the support of gays. It’s for this reason that every major gay organization was so hesitant to talk about the overwhelming support among African-Americans to ban gay marriage in California, and why the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force went so far as to commission a bogus study ostensibly refuting that disturbing statistic itself. In the estimation of the gay rights establishment, African-Americans, like gays, are “oppressed,” and there is no room for enemies on the left. But gays will never get anywhere as long as they view the world in this constrictive and counterproductive way. Indeed, if one wanted to construe a “gay” position on the Arab-Israeli conflict -- that is, examine the issue purely through the prism of the welfare of gay people -- the inescapable stance is nothing less than partiality for Israel. Israel, after all, is the only state in the Middle East that legally enshrines the rights of gay people. Gays serve openly in the military and occupy high-profile positions in business and public life, and Tel Aviv is an international gay mecca. As clichéd as it may sound, Israel is an oasis of liberal tolerance in a reactionary religious backwater, and if gay people want to stand with the “oppressed” of the region, it is the Palestinians seeking a peaceful, two-state solution, not the murderers of Hamas or their backers in Tehran, who merit support."
Hamas Commander, Accused of Theft and Gay Sex, Is Killed by His Own - The New York Times
Damn Zionists!
The final nail in Palestinian-Arab relations? - "Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz’s criticism of Palestinian leaders this week did not surprise those who have been following the deterioration of relations between the Palestinians and some Arab countries in the past few months. What is also not surprising is that the Palestinian leadership does not appear to have an idea how to stop the rapid deterioration. Palestinian officials admitted this week that they have never been forced to deal with such a barrage of criticism from Arabs... “The Palestinian cause is a just cause but its advocates are failures, and the Israeli cause is unjust but its advocates have proven to be successful. There is something that successive Palestinian leadership historically share in common: they always bet on the losing side, and that comes at a price.”... “The Palestinian cause is a just cause but its advocates are failures, and the Israeli cause is unjust but its advocates have proven to be successful. There is something that successive Palestinian leadership historically share in common: they always bet on the losing side, and that comes at a price.” Palestinian leaders are being accused of “trafficking” in the Palestinian cause; depriving their people of international aid; financial corruption; and acting against the interests of their own people. The Palestinian people are being accused of being “ungrateful” toward Arab countries that made many sacrifices on their behalf, gave them hundreds of millions of dollars and jobs. Popular hashtags trending on social media denounce Palestinian leaders as “merchants of the Palestinian cause” and “mercenaries” and declare that “the Palestinian cause is not my cause.” Thousands of social media users, especially from the Gulf countries, have been using these hashtags to hurl abuse at the Palestinians. To add insult to injury, the Gulf Arabs have also been voicing support for Israel by posting pictures of Israeli flags and video clips of Arabs praising the peace agreements with Israel and greeting Israelis on Jewish holidays... “Many of those who offended the Palestinian cause are the Palestinians themselves, especially their leaders, some of them out of ignorance and stupidity,” wrote Kuwaiti political analyst Abdul Mohsen Hamadeh. “Some of the Palestinian leaders have exploited the Palestinian cause to become wealthy. They caused great damage to the Palestinian people.” Hamadeh took the Palestinians to task for rejecting the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan, which recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states in Mandatory Palestine and for rejecting several peace initiatives since then. He also pointed out that Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 and chose to align itself with Iran and Turkey... Hamadeh’s criticism of the Palestinian leadership, echoed by a large number of Gulf Arabs, sounds as though it had been taken directly from the website of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. This is the main reason some Palestinian officials, including PLO secretary-general Saeb Erekat, have begun labeling their critics as “Zionist Arabs.” A Palestinian official in Ramallah, who spoke to The Jerusalem Post on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said that many Arabs who are currently bad-mouthing the Palestinians “appear to have been brainwashed by Israeli and Zionist propaganda."
Apparently Arabs are simple minded and easily brainwashed
Critical Spectator - Posts | Facebook - "There is no better evidence of how disastrously incompetent Obama's administration was in the foreign policy arena - and how much Trump's administration has accomplished within a single term - than the series of agreements signed between the Arab states and Israel.On Friday Donald Trump announced the third one, this time involving Sudan, which earlier agreed to also pay $335 million in reparations to victims of decades-long terrorism supported by Khartoum, in exchange for a removal from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and normalization of relations with the US.This is the third such agreement signed in a span of two months, following Abraham Accords involving UAE and Bahrain - something deemed impossible just four years ago.That's when John Kerry (repeatedly) confidently stated the following:"There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world"... When Donald Trump became the first president to actually act on his promise of moving US embassy to Jerusalem, foreign policy "experts" and political opponents predicted it would lead to greater instability and could cause new conflicts to break out.3 years later not only no such thing has happened but new chapters of peace in the Middle East are being written.Agreement with Sudan has an even greater symbolic meaning, as it was in Khartoum on September 1st 1967, in the aftermath of the Six Day War earlier that year, that the Arab League states issued a resolution, which included the three NOs:
- No peace with Israel
- No recognition of Israel
- No negotiations with it
Today the Khartoum Resolution was undone."
Vittorio Arrigoni - Wikipedia - "Vittorio Arrigoni (Italian pronunciation: [vitˌtɔːrjo arriˈɡoːni]; 4 February 1975 – 15 April 2011) was an Italian reporter, writer, pacifist and activist. Arrigoni worked with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the Gaza Strip, from 2008 until his death. Arrigoni maintained a website, Guerrilla Radio, and published a book of his experiences in Gaza during the 2008–09 Gaza War between Hamas and Israel. Arrigoni was the first foreigner kidnapped in Gaza since BBC journalist Alan Johnston's abduction in 2007. He was subsequently killed by Palestinian Salafists. His murder was condemned by various Palestinian groups."
Damn Israel, damn Zionists who murdered him!
Opinion | When Anti-Zionism Tunnels Under Your House - The New York Times - "In 2002, Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, was said to have given a speech noting that the creation of the state of Israel had spared his followers the trouble of hunting down Jews at “the ends of the world.” The Lebanese terrorist group has prominent apologists in the West, and some of them rushed to claim that Nasrallah had uttered no such thing.Except he had. Tony Badran of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies tracked down the original recording of the speech... Israelis experience anti-Zionism in a different way than, say, readers of The New York Review of Books: not as a bold sally in the world of ideas, but as a looming menace to their earthly existence, held at bay only through force of arms. It’s somewhat like the difference between discussing the effects of Marxism-Leninism in an undergraduate seminar at Reed College, circa 2018 — and experiencing them at closer range in West Berlin, circa 1961.Actually, it’s worse than that, since the Soviets merely wanted to dominate or conquer their enemies and seize their property, not wipe them off the map and end their lives. Anti-Zionism might have been a respectable point of view before 1948, when the question of Israel’s existence was in the future and up for debate. Today, anti-Zionism is a call for the elimination of a state — details to follow regarding the fate befalling those who currently live in it. Note the distinction: Anti-Zionists are not advocating the reform of a state, as Japan was reformed after 1945. Nor are they calling for the adjustment of a state’s borders, as Canada’s border with the United States was periodically adjusted in the 19th century. They’re not talking about the birth of a separate state, either, as South Sudan was born out of Sudan in 2011. And they’re certainly not championing the partition of a multiethnic state into ethnically homogenous components, as Yugoslavia was partitioned after 1991. Anti-Zionism is ideologically unique in insisting that one state, and one state only, doesn’t just have to change. It has to go. By a coincidence that its adherents insist is entirely innocent, this happens to be the Jewish state, making anti-Zionists either the most disingenuous of ideologues or the most obtuse. When then-CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill called last month for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea” and later claimed to be ignorant of what the slogan really meant, it was hard to tell in which category he fell... What’s worse: To be denied membership in a country club because you’re Jewish, or driven from your ancestral homeland and sovereign state for the same reason? If anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are meaningfully distinct (I think they are not), the human consequences of the latter are direr.The good news is that the conversation about anti-Zionism remains mostly academic because Israelis haven’t succumbed to the fatal illusion that, if only they behaved better, their enemies would hate them less. To the extent that Israeli parents ever sleep soundly, it’s because they know what they are up against. And, to borrow Kipling’s line, they never make mock of uniforms that guard them while they sleep. The same can’t be said for that class of scolds who excel in making excuses for the wicked and finding fault with the good. When you find yourself on the same side as Hassan Nasrallah, Louis Farrakhan and David Duke on the question of a country’s right to exist, it’s time to re-examine every opinion you hold."
Barack Obama Offers a Primer for Hating Israel - "Obama portrays Britain and then Israel as occupying powers in Palestine, without ever explaining who actually owned the land they were and are supposedly occupying. He makes no mention of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. As The Palestinian Delusion explains in detail, the Mandate directed the British to encourage “close settlement by Jews on the land” for “the establishment of the Jewish national home.” What gave the League the right to do such a thing? The dying Ottoman Empire had ceded Palestine to the League in 1918. Jews had lived in that land from time immemorial, and it was otherwise sparsely populated. It was a perfect place for the Jews who faced discrimination, harassment and worse in Europe and elsewhere to settle.Thus the common assumption, which Obama fosters, that the Israelis are illegitimate occupiers of a land that belongs rightly to the Palestinians, founders on the facts. There never was a Palestinian state. No Palestinian king, or emperor, or president. There never was a Palestinian nationality or ethnicity distinct from the nationality and ethnicity of the Arabs of the region. Palestine, like Staten Island or Georgetown, was always the name of a region, not a nation-state or ethnonational home. Obama also claims that the Jews “organized highly trained armed forces to defend their settlements,” without mentioning that in 1919, a Muslim leader, Amin al-Husseini, a member of a prominent Arab clan in Jerusalem, orchestrated a series of attacks on Jews all over Palestine. The following year, he instigated riots in Jerusalem during Passover. Amid mass looting and rapes, six Jews were murdered and over two hundred more injured. A court of inquiry found that “the Jews were the victims of a peculiarly brutal and cowardly attack, the majority of the casualties being old men, women and children.”This violence was ongoing. In August 1929 in Jerusalem, rioting Arabs murdered 133 Jews and injured over two hundred more, many in their homes. In Hebron, they murdered another sixty-seven Jews, and in Safed, twenty more. The British government-appointed Shaw Commission found that the riots “took the form, in the most part, of a vicious attack by Arabs on Jews accompanied by wanton destruction of Jewish property.” Obama mentions none of this. His description of the birth of the State of Israel is no more fair or accurate: “As Britain withdrew, the two sides quickly fell into war. And with Jewish militias claiming victory in 1948, the state of Israel was officially born.”The “two sides” were actually tiny Israel against the giant massed forces of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. They didn’t “fall into war”; the Arab League declared war immediately after Israel declared its independence. Obama’s use of the term “militias” to describe the Israel Defense Forces is doubtless chosen for its resonance with the right-wing, racist, white supremacist militias that American Leftists hysterically imagine to be stalking the land. Even worse, Obama claims that “for the next three decades, Israel would engage in a succession of conflicts with its Arab neighbors.” One would get no hint from his account of the fact that Israel “would engage” in all these conflicts not out of some imperialist or supremacist impulse, but because each and every time, Arab forces carried out an unprovoked attack against the Jewish state. But Obama appears determined to portray Israel as the aggressor, trusting in the general ignorance of his readership.Obama’s animus toward Israel is so great that he even calls the Temple Mount “one of Islam’s holiest sites,” without ever mentioning its central importance in Judaism. Obama’s animus toward Israel is so great that he even calls the Temple Mount “one of Islam’s holiest sites,” without ever mentioning its central importance in Judaism.A Promised Land thus includes a concise primer for Leftists to remind them of why they must hate Israel. As Obama’s dotty old puppet prepares to enter the Oval Office, this is not a good sign for America’s alliance with Israel, or for peace in the Middle East."
Haniyeh: Hamas rejected $15 billion in return for economic projects - "Hamas turned down an offer for carrying out various economic projects in the Gaza Strip in return for dismantling its armed wing and changing its policy toward Israel
When you're clearly not interested in peace
(1) The Truth - Posts - "The Palestinian Story:
(By Imam Tawhidi)
Once upon a time, it’s our land, it’s everyone’s land, it’s Muslim land, it’s both Muslim and Jewish land, the Temple is Jewish, Solomon was Muslim so the Temple is ours, Okay, the Temple is not Muslim but the building on top is a Mosque, the Prophet ascended to heaven from here, no he didn’t, yes he did, no he didn’t, why? Because the Mosque was built after his death, so what? Are you denying Israeli oppression? What about Islamic Terrorists killing Jews? What about the occupation? What occupation? Prove Palestine exists! We can’t. Okay? So make peace? No. Why? Because we want our own country. Okay, make peace and have a country. No. Why? Because we don’t want Jewish neighbours. So where will they go? Back to Europe! Well that’s not going to Happen. But Gaza is an open air prison! Here take a look at their luxurious lifestyle. Maybe stop throwing rockets? Stop being racist! Make a peace agreement! No. Okay, Arabs got tired, they made peace with Israel. They’re traitors. No they’re not. Yes they are. So what’s the solution? From the river to the sea Palestine will be free! What’s the name of the river and sea? None of your business.
The end."
8-Month-Old Infant Dies in Gaza after PA Denies Him Exit for Heart Surgery in Israel - "Omar Yaghi, an eight-month-old infant from the Gaza Strip with a cardiac condition, died on Thursday following a one-month postponement of his scheduled operation at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer, Israel."
Damn Zionists!
‘Jews are our dogs’: Anti-Semitic chant at Mississauga rally being investigated by police - "An incident at anti-Israel rally over the weekend in Mississauga is the subject of a hate-crimes complaint under investigation by Peel Regional Police.Video from the rally appears to show a protester chanting an anti-Semitic slogan in Arabic, “Palestine is our country and the Jews are our dogs,” and others could be heard repeating it back."
More of that "anti-Zionism"
David Collier on Twitter - "Israel is a tiny democratic nation surrounded by despots and radical Islamic terror groups Yet #Ireland are actually talking about boycotting #Israel They don't boycott China They don't boycott Pakistan They don't care about other conflicts They just want to boycott the Jews"
Missile hits human rights office in Gaza. Here's why you never heard about it - "a missile hit the fifth floor of the Al-Harara office building in Gaza City, which is across from the Palestinian Legislative Council building. It’s a missile that went astray on its launchers, almost certainly members of Islamic Jihad.Ironically, it scored a direct hit on the office of Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights, which scrutinizes the Palestinian authorities and reports on their violations of human rights, civil rights and the rule of law in the enclaves of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israeli sources told Haaretz that the missile wasn’t Israeli. But one could have concluded that it was a local missile just from the silence that Palestinian media outlets imposed on themselves"
Outrage after Ash Sarkar features in Rise of the Nazis BBC Two documentary - "The BBC has come under fire today for allowing a woman to feature on a documentary about the Nazis after she defended anti-Israel graffiti on the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto.Ash Sarkar notoriously sent her 'solidarity' to Ewa Jasiewicz after she sprayed 'Free Gaza and Palestine' on the walls of the largest Jewish World War Two ghetto in 2010.Ms Sarkar is due to appear on a new BBC Two documentary called The Rise of the Nazis, sparking outrage among the Jewish community.The decision has lead to a backlash from outraged celebrities and historians who branded it 'appalling' and 'deeply distributing.'"
Ash Sarkar is not an expert on Nazism. And the BBC should not treat her as one - "Sarkar doesn’t know anything worth knowing about Nazism or German Communism. Her contribution to last night’s episode consisted of a handful of ten or fifteen-second soundbites which managed to be both unilluminating and annoying. She described the leader of the KPD as “definitely a charismatic guy” and “red as Hell”. The scale of the Nazi attack on the KPD, she said, was “insane”. Not one soundbite was longer than fifteen seconds... apparently, Sarkar was chosen because she’s a “contemporary figure” or a “current public figure”. This is completely vacuous. And what makes Sarkar, a Left-wing self-publicist, “a contemporary figure”? The BBC, in a moment of panic that they are not watched by enough young people, have started filling up many of their current affairs programmes with Left-wing activists in their 20s. And that makes her a “contemporary figure”, who can be interviewed in a BBC2 historical documentary programme alongside Professor Sir Richard Evans, author of almost thirty history books, including a 2000-page trilogy on the history of Nazism. No one at the BBC has come up with a remotely plausible argument for her inclusion."
From Congress to classrooms: reframing the Israel narrative - "In Britain, the pro-Israel investigative blogger David Collier wrote this week about a textbook, The Middle East: Conflict, Crisis and Change, 1917-2012, that is used in schools as part of the history curriculum for the 16-and-over public-education exam. It was made available to him by the Zionist Federation.On reading this textbook, Collier found a systematic loading of the narrative to sanitize the Arab war against Israel, disproportionately mention violent Zionist responses and obscure the overwhelming legal, historical and moral Jewish claim to the land.The book is said to muffle the fact that the Jews are the only people for whom the land of Israel was ever their national kingdom, instead calling the ancient Israelites “settlers” and thus implying that they just happened to live there.Since the West’s animus against Israel is founded upon the chronologically absurd and factually wrong belief that the Palestinian Arabs were the indigenous people of the land displaced by Jewish invaders or “settlers,” this itself programs children to believe the big lie that fuels murderous hatred against Israel and the Jews. But the book warps the narrative much further.For example, it terms Jewish attacks on the British during the Palestine Mandate period “Zionist terrorism,” even though the intended targets were military; and yet it calls the deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians during the so-called “Second Intifada,” when they were being blown to smithereens on buses and in cafes, merely “Palestinian attacks.”It refers to “angry clashes” in Mandate Palestine between Jews and Arabs without explaining that the Jews of Palestine were being subjected to repeated Arab pogroms against which they tried to defend themselves.It even describes as “Arab-Jew clashes” the 1929 Arab massacres of Jews in Hebron, Tzfat and Jerusalem, when dozens of Jews were hacked to death.More astoundingly still, it makes no mention of Hitler’s ally, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, who did more than anyone else to incite the Arab mobs against the Jews. And so on.America is seeing a similar attempt to indoctrinate schoolchildren into anti-Israel falsehoods and, worse yet, into outright hatred."
Looking back, Gaza pullout was a mistake - "On paper, it seemed like the right solution—the beginning of a process to end the occupation. That’s how it was presented by Sharon too. But immediately after Israel pulled out of there, it turned out the strip wouldn’t be like Singapore—but rather like Benghazi. The Hamas militias had no interest in an organized transfer of the production and real estate assets Israel had left behind. They preferred to build training camps in greenhouses than grow tomatoes there... The economic, social and security situation in Gaza has deteriorated in the years that have passed since the disengagement: Thousands of Gazans have been killed in three wars against Israel, tens of thousands have been wounded, and an unknown number have died due to lack of water, electricity and basic medical services. On the Israeli side, many soldiers and civilians have been killed, communities have been damaged and billions have been invested in fortification and in protecting the border.Our siege worsened the crisis in the strip but didn’t create it. It was created by the fact that the Gazans’ fate was placed—or rather deserted—in the hands of a cruel, violent, illegal and incompetent Islamic terror organization, which was unprepared to rule as a responsible government... Had Israel remained in Gaza, the economic gap between the Palestinians in the strip and the Palestinians in the West Bank would have been narrowed, and a solution would have been found for the transfer of goods and people between Gaza and Hebron. The PA would have maintained its rule—and would have even grown stronger. Tens of thousands of Gazans would be working in Israel, as they did in the past, and the level of violence would have dropped... as long as Israel continues the siege, as long as Hamas continues the terror regime, as long as Egypt remains indifferent and the PA keeps enjoying the bloodshed, no one will be willing to invest the billions of dollars needed to reconstruct Gaza—critical investments which will open a window of hope for the strip’s residents, slightly ease their despair and cool the boiling atmosphere. The vicious circle of bloodshed won’t stop turning on its own. On the contrary, its rounds will only hasten and become more frequent—and more disastrous"
Lucas Lynch - "It was really during the last war in Gaza that I began to examine this conflict on my own. I still don't like Netanyahu and I still think a full withdrawal from the West Bank is necessary and important. But the more I started to dig into the evidence and quiet the slogans all around me, I began to realize more and more just what a completely rotten pack of Russian propaganda lies I had been fed my entire life. And just how much these lies were completely incompatible with anyone that truly cared about helping the oppressed.People appalled by trumps immigration policies should note that in the 1930s it was the Palestinians wearing MAGA hats, literally rioting to stop all immigration of Jews fleeing persecution. Many of them spoke openly about fears of "replacement" – doesn't that sound familiar? It was the Palestinians chanting "Jews will not replace us" long before Nazis yelled it in Charlottesville.If not for this there may have not even been the necessity of two separate nations at all. Being an American I favor multi ethnic democracy is based on common citizenship, not ethnic lineage or religious tribalism. Palestinians could have made different choices and made this a reality, for whom they would have been the primary benefactors of a new nation bringing all of the advanced scientific and technological and ethical progress that instead came to a separate Israel.The unfortunate truth is that Palestinians and most of the Middle East didn't want Jews there, peaceful immigration or no. My childhood wish that one state encompassing everyone really was possible has been destroyed by a hard look at reality, the reality being that there is a non-trivial portion of people in the region for whom any Jewish presence is unacceptable under any circumstances, and this strain of thinking was far more pronounced in the 1930s. Even after the UN decided to create two separate states, the issue could have been stopped there if the Arab nations had decided to recognize the borders drawn. Instead they refused to recognize them, and tried to invade multiple times and destroy the country, in the course of which Israel made territorial gains primarily in completely defensive wars. It is rather odd that these nations did not recognize the authority of the UN on the matter, given that it is the UN resolutions against the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank - resolutions that I disagree with on some of the specifics, but in intent I basically agree - that they constantly point to as signs of legitimate authority. If the border is drawn by the United Nations were not legitimate, why would these resolutions be gospel? It is either all one or the other."
