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- Hamas demolishing homes of pre-1948 Arabs
- Fourth Geneva Conventions, Article 49 - the Travaux Préparatoires
- Bir Zeit U essentially punishes professor for "insulting Islam"
- Sunday Links
- Fayyad again begs Arabs to pay their pledges to the PA
- Malaysia's "Obedient Wives Holy Islamic Sex Booklet"
- Fatah/Hamas "unity" news
- Today's PressTV anti-semitism
Hamas demolishing homes of pre-1948 Arabs Posted: 08 Jul 2012 04:24 PM PDT Really! The Gaza government on Sunday began the demolition of several homes in Gaza City, saying they are built on government land.Yes, Arabs who have lived in the same homes for at least 64 years are being threatened with expulsion and their homes destroyed. These aren't "refugees" - these are "pre-1948" Palestinians whose homes are being demolished by Hamas. This is too rich. Will they now be considered "refugees"? Will UNRWA provide aid for them? Will the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions weigh in on this horror, calling it "racist"? Are they being demolished by Caterpillar bulldozers? If a neo-Rachel Corrie would stand in front of a bulldozer, would it stop? Where is the ISM, anyway? Is anyone protesting outside Hamas offices abroad? What about the internationals in Gaza now with the latest Miles of Smiles trip? Does this mean that Hamas recognizes Ottoman and British land laws as far as private ownership goes? So much irony in such a small news story... (h/t Arnold) |
Fourth Geneva Conventions, Article 49 - the Travaux Préparatoires Posted: 08 Jul 2012 02:45 PM PDT There has been much discussion about the intent of the sixth paragraph of the Fourth Geneva Conventions which many claim proves that Israel has violated by allowing citizens to move, voluntarily, to occupied territory. The entire text of Article 49 states: Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive. The only way to determine whether the last paragraph is referring to forced transfers or to voluntary transfers as well is to read the entire discussion about the article that occurred while the Conventions were being drafted - the Travaux Préparatoires. These aren't easy to find, but here it every reference to the discussions about the article I could gather. The draft of the Conventions, written at Stockholm, is a little different, and it was called Article 45 in the draft. While the final paragraph remains identical, the discussions around the entire article must be read. The Stockholm draft of Article 45 stated: ARTICLE 45. -Deportations or transfers against their will of protected persons out of occupied territory are prohibited, whether such deportations or transfers are individual or collective, and regardless of their motive. Here are the Travaux Préparatoires. I think they make clear that the entire Article is concerned with forced transfer of populations against their wills, and the last paragraph is no exception, even though there was remarkably little discussion specifically about that last paragraph. From the 16th meeting: The CHAIRMAN said that four amendments had been submitted to Article 45, viz. by Canada, Greece, Finland, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (see Annex No. 270). From the 40th meeting: Colonel Du PASQUIER (Switzerland), Rapporteur, said that the text proposed by the Drafting Committee (see Annex No. 271) set forth a principle on which all the members of that Committee had had no difficulty in agreeing, namely, the need to prohibit, once and for all, the abominable transfers of population which had taken place during the last war. The procedure for giving effect to that prohibition had, however, been difficult to determine.From the final report summarizing the proceedings: Article 45All of the discussions of that article assumed that the entire article dealt only with forced population transfer. The final paragraph would be very out of place if it alone included voluntary transfer on the part of a population, after five paragraphs that are clearly about forced transfers, deportations and evacuations all actively done by the occupying power. |
Bir Zeit U essentially punishes professor for "insulting Islam" Posted: 08 Jul 2012 12:45 PM PDT From Inside Higher Education: Birzeit University occupies an important place in Palestinian history. The oldest Palestinian university, it grew out of an elementary school for girls created in 1924, when schooling was rare for Palestinian children. It became a college in 1942 and a university in 1975. Birzeit has been the site of numerous protests and clashes with Israeli authorities, who shut down the university frequently and for lengthy periods in the 1980s. "The university is guided by the principle of academic freedom and upholds independence of thought, freedom of discussion, and unimpeded circulation of ideas. Ironically, these principles made the Birzeit University community a target of harassment under the Israeli military occupation," says a history of Birzeit on its website.There's lots more, but the upshot is that the university is trampling over the professor's rights while coddling Islamists who are threatening him. By the way, the article misunderstands Bir Zeit's history. Even though it links to the history page of the university, it did not become a "college" in 1942, as IHE says, but it became a high school which were often called colleges then. It only became a four year college in 1975 - under Israeli rule. There were, in fact, no universities in the West Bank under Jordanian rule. (h/t D) |
Posted: 08 Jul 2012 10:45 AM PDT From Ian: UNWatch: Iran elected to top post at UN Arms Trade Treaty conference "Right after a UN Security Council report found Iran guilty of illegally transferring guns and bombs to Syria, which is now murdering thousands of its own people, it defies logic, morality and common sense for the UN to now elect this same regime to a global post in the regulation of arms transfers," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a non-governmental monitoring group based in Geneva. EU security organization rejects PA membership Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe denies request for observers status, J'lem praises rejection. "Twenty-eight countries voted against the Palestinian request and 21 voted in favor of accepting the application, according to the report." Gaza Mythbusting: It's Easier Than You Think "Several days ago I stumbled upon an Arab website advertising fashionable recreational tours to the Gaza Strip. Yeah, I am not on any medication and I am talking about the very same Gaza which is referred to by the Palestinians as "the greatest concentration camp on the face of the Earth" (с). "The Ghetto of Palestinian suffering" (c) and "The Auschwitz of our Times" (c)." AJ Correspondent caught in gunfire in Libya Al Jazeera correspondent Hoda Abdel Hamid was caught in gunfire outside a polling station in Benghazi while part way through a live cross with SBS on Saturday. Honest Reporting Sunday Times Republishes Doctored Iranian Fauxtograph CIFWatch: The Guardian's Giles Fraser, and the Palestinian 'weapon of the womb' Jordanian MP who brandished a gun on live TV may face attempted murder charge A triple threat: NYC: Ex-Muslim to be ordained as rabbi Dario Hunter, born to Iranian Muslim father and African-American mother to graduate online rabbinical program in the summer "According to various reports in the NYC media, Hunter, an openly gay man raised by an Iranian Muslim father and an African-American mother, will graduate alongside classmates who include a Catholic-born Brazilian and a British songwriter." |
Fayyad again begs Arabs to pay their pledges to the PA Posted: 08 Jul 2012 08:45 AM PDT From AP: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is urging Arab countries to keep their promises and send tens of millions of dollars to his cash-strapped government. There is a simple way for the PA to save tens of millions of dollars, but it would involve having the PA stop supporting terror groups and terrorists, both directly and indirectly. They have to stop paying terrorists in Israeli prisons, families of "martyrs," and, most of all, the 60% of its budget that goes to Gaza where Hamas can thrive on PA cash without any PA responsibility. And no Western donor has the guts to tell them to do that. Long term, the PA - with its well-educated population - should have been pushing a program where Palestinian Arabs could be used for remote outsourcing work in the vast Arab world. Computer programming, tech support, call centers, legal services, translation services, research, consulting, film-making - the list of such jobs is endless and the PA has had nearly two decades to build such an infrastructure to reduce reliance on foreign aid. But it never bothered, instead basking in bizarre World Bank reports praising the PA for doing so much and blaming Israel for everything wrong. (h/t CHA) |
Malaysia's "Obedient Wives Holy Islamic Sex Booklet" Posted: 08 Jul 2012 07:15 AM PDT From Bikya Masr: Despite having the last sex guide banned by the Malaysia government, the "Obedient Wives Club" has launched a new guide detailing how to "please your husband." |
Posted: 08 Jul 2012 05:20 AM PDT Ever since Hamas shut down the voter registration office in Gaza, they have waged a campaign of arresting Fatah members there. Hamas listed a series of conditions before re-opening the office, including appointing its own members to the commission, having Fatah release Hamas prisoners in the West Bank, and some demands on West Bank voter registration. The fake "unity" keeps rolling along.... |
Posted: 08 Jul 2012 01:44 AM PDT Iranian state media loves to push anti-semitic memes, but it almost always hides them behind interviews with Western crackpot "experts" to shield the Iranian government from charges of explicit anti-semitism. Today's example: Kevin Barret, an American author and expert in Islamic studies, said Washington and its allies have already succumbed to the agendas set forth by extremist Likud Zionism which seeks to destabilize the entire Middle East.Barrett's Wikipedia page is entertaining, to say the least, with Trutherism, other bizarre conspiracy theories and a restraining order by his wife. His Truther book on 9/11 includes fantasies about him being "martyred" for telling the "truth" (p. 24.) Always on the lookout for new synonyms for "Jews," I liked the line about how Likud is promoting the cause of "international Zionism" rather than Israeli interests. The only way to parse that sentence is to conclude that "international Zionism" is akin to what Henry Ford called "the International Jew." I also love how every Muslim and anti-semite is totally convinced that Israel is backing whichever side they are against in Syria. There is no shortage of anti-semitic crackpots in the US, and PressTV seems to find them all. |
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