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- Jordanian band defies BDSers, tours Israel
- PalArabs riot, police shoot tear gas, many arrested. In Jordan.
- Illegal Palestinian Christian houses to be destroyed, but there will be no headlines
- 10/20 Links: Fatah - “All means of struggle until statehood”, Tall Tales about Arafat, Saudis Sulk
- Hamas leader Haniyeh calls for worldwide terror intifada - and thanks Rachel Corrie
- Egyptian family of Arab Holocaust hero refuses prize
- Karl Vick's revisionist history of Oslo (updated)
| Jordanian band defies BDSers, tours Israel Posted: 20 Oct 2013 06:09 PM PDT From the Times of Oman: It's not like Autostrad loves Israel. Quite the contrary: Arnaout was quoted on a website that getting a visa was the only option available.But this is a big loss for the "Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel" which defined this trip as breaking their rules for normalization. Even the author of the piece, Daoud Kuttab, criticized PACBI: After 65 years of Nakbeh and 46 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights, having a group of unelected individuals decide who is a patriot and who is a traitor does not serve the overall cause.Ray Hanania made a similar point in Saudi Gazette, slamming the haters: The extremists, who are a minority faction in our Arab community, step in and bully the mainstream Arabs into silence. Arabs are afraid to stand up to the extremists who often direct their hate and anger against Arabs even more than they do against Israel. So the mainstream Arabs remain silent. It's better to not say anything, the moderates mistakenly conclude, than to stand up to the fanatics.           |
| PalArabs riot, police shoot tear gas, many arrested. In Jordan. Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:31 PM PDT This story completely flew under the radar, and it wasn't covered at all by Jordan's state media. From Ammon News, October 9: Last Thursday, October 3rd, at approximately 7:00 p.m., a conflict occurred in Gaza Camp, eight kilometers outside of Jerash, between several residents of the camp and the adjacent Al Hadada neighborhood to the west.Here's video: Apparently, no "pro-Palestinian human rights" groups bothered to go to the camp to act as human shields against the Jordanian occupiers. Residents of the Gaza/Jerash camp are not citizens of Jordan. Although they have lived within Jordan's borders for over 45 years, they cannot become citizens, they cannot freely travel, and they are not tried in civilian but in military court, from which nine of them were released today after being held for over two weeks in custody. There are two separate double standards here, both on how Jordan treats its Palestinian Arabs who originated from Gaza as well as how Jordanian police are not criticized by groups that pretend to be pro-Palestinian for their riot control methods. But, as Meryl Yourish likes to say, it is Israel Double Standard Time, which occurs every day of the week that ends in a "y."      |
| Illegal Palestinian Christian houses to be destroyed, but there will be no headlines Posted: 20 Oct 2013 11:45 AM PDT Because they are in Lebanon.  From Now Lebanon: A security forces unit is preparing to raid the Dbayeh Palestinian refugee camp and destroy around 20 illegal buildings, NOW learned on Saturday.      |
| 10/20 Links: Fatah - “All means of struggle until statehood”, Tall Tales about Arafat, Saudis Sulk Posted: 20 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT From Ian: JPost Edtorial: Tall tales Fatah co-founder Farouk Kaddoumi – who brands the two-state solution "just a temporary phase" – showed Al Jazeera TV in 2009 what he insisted were protocols of a three-way collusion by Abbas, Arafat's longtime sidekick Muhammad Dahlan and then-prime minister Ariel Sharon to assassinate Arafat.The Saudis are sulking Despite its candid anger, Saudi Arabia cannot forgo its military partnership with the U.S. After seeing how the U.S. recently froze military aid to Egypt, the Saudis realized that, with Obama in power, anything is possible. It is preferable for Saudi Arabia to not publicly confront the U.S. on the U.N. stage. Rather, it should do so indirectly. There is much more Saudi Arabia can do to thwart the Iranian nuclear project. It may be that Saudi Arabia's open refusal of a Security Council seat is masking other behind-the-scenes moves, such as building a discrete and unnatural coalition. It is best that such things are done as far away from the spotlight as possible.France suggests reforming veto power on Security Council In light of the Security Council's stalemate on Syria — Russia and China have repeatedly blocked resolutions calling for the use of force against the Bashar Assad regime — France has suggested reforming the mighty veto power of the body's five permanent members: the US, UK, France, Russia, and China.The world from here: Why Jordan relies on Israel to secure the Jordan Valley Both the king and his closest advisers are also keenly aware that in the event of an Israeli withdrawal, the Jordan Valley could easily be transformed into the "Philadelphi Corridor" of the West Bank.CAMERA Prompts Ha'aretz Correction on Gaza Imports CAMERA's Israel office has prompted a correction on an article in the Sept. 23 English print edition of Ha'aretz which had wrongly reported that Israel allowed concrete and steel to enter the Gaza Strip legally for the first time in six years.BBC's "Obstacles to Peace" erases pre-1967 Jewish history in Jerusalem It is, of course, bad enough that this one-sided political polemic has been allowed to stand on the website of an organization supposedly committed to accuracy and impartiality for well over six years. It is even worse that this misleading article and its accompanying ones in the same series are now being promoted by the BBC as additional reading for audience members seeking to learn more about the issues surrounding the talks between Israel and the PLO. That promotion comes in direct conflict with the constitutional basis according to which the BBC's defined public purposes include building "a global understanding on international issues".Israel 'Knew about Terror Tunnel for a Year' Daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot wrote Friday that Israel had known for over a year about the terror tunnel that Hamas was digging into its territory, but let Hamas leaders continue to pour resources into it.Sraya Ofer Met his Killers 2 Weeks before Murder According to new information reported by Channel 2, the man brutally murdered outside his home in the Jordan Valley last week, Sraya Ofer, had encountered his Arab murderers two weeks earlier, when they approached his home. They aroused his suspicion in that encounter and he reported the license number of their car to police.IDF wounds Palestinian attempting to infiltrate Negev town of Meitar IDF forces opened fire on and wounded a Palestinian who was attempting to infiltrate into the village of Meitar in the Negev. The man was found sabotaging the fence in an apparent attempt to enter the community, the IDF said.Socialist MEP from Belgium hold anti-Israel event over Beduin policy The Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament on Thursday prevented an Israeli official from participating in panel discussion on the Israeli Beduin community, which degenerated into a anti-Israel hate festival, Israeli diplomats said.Abbas: Reports are wrong — peace talks not at a dead end Notwithstanding recent Israeli media reports, the Middle East peace talks are not at an impasse, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday.PMW: Fatah - "All means of struggle until statehood" Another Fatah posting also illustrated the use of violence as one of Fatah's "means." A picture showed a member of Fatah's military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, taking aim with a rifle, accompanied by the following text:PA TV teaches children not to trust Jews Archbishop Gets Award for Arming Terrorists Melkite Archbishop Hillarion Capucci ran guns for the PLO in the 1970s. He got caught and was sentenced to 12 years in jail. He was released after serving a few years of his sentence. The Vatican, embarrassed by the presence of an Archbishop in an Israeli jail, secured his early release by promising that the Archbishop would not engage in any anti-Israel activism once he was out of jail. Capucci violated the terms of his release on a number of occasions, most recently participating in the so-called humanitarian flotilla into the Gaza Strip.Again: Arabs Fly Nazi Flag Near Road For at least the second time in five months, Arab residents of Beit Umar in the Palestinian Authority (PA) have placed a Nazi flag over a major thoroughfare where Jews pass in their vehicles.Kidnapped Lebanese Pilgrims Released in Exchange for Pilots Nine Lebanese pilgrims who were kidnapped by rebels in Syria 17 months ago arrived on Saturday in Beirut, after being freed in exchange for two Turkish pilots seized in Lebanon in August, reports Al Arabiya.Let's stop deluding ourselves about Turkey, says Liberman Responding to Turkey's accusation that Israel was behind a "media campaign" against Ankara over the exposure of an Israeli spy ring in Iran, as well as past accusations, Liberman said the claims were "baseless" and served as proof that Turkey under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan would never warm to Israel, despite the formal apology issued to Erdogan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March over the 2010 Mavi Marmara affair.State officials: Talks with Turkey 'stuck' The Washington Post's report about Turkey's disclosure to Iran of an Israeli spy network might have failed to elicit an official Israeli response, but state officials admit that security relations with Ankara are extremely limited and went as far as saying that reconciliation talks surrounding the Marmara raid are "stuck."MEMRI: Egyptian Poet Fatima Naoot: Egypt Was Conquered by the Arabs, Coptic Language Changed By Force US quietly releasing $1.6B in Pakistan assistance The U.S. has quietly decided to release more than $1.6 billion in military and economic aid to Pakistan that was suspended when relations between the two countries disintegrated over the covert raid that killed Usama bin Laden and deadly U.S. airstrikes against Pakistani soldiers.Israel Defense Forces to Develop Drone Submarines, Market Expected to Reach $2 Billion The department within Israel's Ministry of Defense, tasked with developing next generation weaponry, MAFAT, is working on developing unmanned underwater vehicles, the market for which could exceed $2 billion by 2020, Israel's Globes business daily reported, citing MAFAT aeronautics director Dr. Yuval Cohen.Kennedy Was a Friend to American and Soviet Jews The conventional community memory of Kennedy would be enough by itself. JFK overcame the legacy of his father, Joseph Kennedy, FDR's notoriously appeasement-minded ambassador to Britain, to build a warm relationship with American Jews. As Warren Bass recounted a decade ago in his book Support Any Friend, the U.S.-Israel alliance took a big step forward with Kennedy's approval of the sale of Hawk missiles to Israel.      |
| Hamas leader Haniyeh calls for worldwide terror intifada - and thanks Rachel Corrie Posted: 20 Oct 2013 07:45 AM PDT From the Qassam Brigades English site: The ISM movement that Corrie was a part of has not distanced itself from this speech, even though they claim that they are against violence.      |
| Egyptian family of Arab Holocaust hero refuses prize Posted: 20 Oct 2013 05:45 AM PDT  The reason? Because Yad Vashem is in Israel. From AP: A member of the family of the first Arab honoured by Israel for risking his life to save Jews during the Holocaust says the family isn't interested in the recognition.      |
| Karl Vick's revisionist history of Oslo (updated) Posted: 20 Oct 2013 03:28 AM PDT Karl Vick in Time does what he always does:
Two decades ago, the word Oslo evoked everything the Middle East normally refuses to provide: hope, trust and compromise. Israelis and Palestinians, two peoples claiming the same biblical lands, had rarely talked peace with each other before in a serious way. Then, in the space of four months, their leaders secretly agreed upon a set of plans — the Oslo accords — that promised an end, once and for all, to the violent conflict between them. The diplomatic achievement was sealed on the White House lawn on Sept. 13, 1993, with a signing ceremony and a handshake between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.Were things wonderful and peaceful and hopeful between July 1994 and November 1995? During that time there were dozens of drive-by shootings of Jews on the roads, as well as stabbings. On August 26, 1994 - Shlomo Kapach, age 22, and Gil Revah, age 21, were killed at a Ramle building site, and the PA protected their killers. On October 19, 1994, a Hamas bomb killed 22 people on a bus in Tel Aviv. On January 22, 1995, a double suicide bombing at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya killed 21 others. On April 13, 1995, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Hadera Central Bus Station, killing 5 and injuring 30. On July 24, 1995, 6 civilians were killed when a terrorist blew himself up on a bus in Ramat Gan. On August 21, 1995, three Israelis and one American were killed when a terrorist blew himself up in an attack on a Jerusalem bus. But none of those deadly attacks - and these are only a few of scores of them - are considered by Vick to have harmed the Oslo process. No, Arab violence is never the problem. Only Jews are responsible for ruining "peace." The dozens of Israelis killed before Rabin's assassination weren't killed by Arab extremists, according to Vick - their extremism only started after Rabin's assassination. Beyond that, Vick is clearly unaware that Rabin never advocated a Palestinian Arab state. He never advocated dividing Jerusalem. His last speech in Knesset before his assassination described his red lines: We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority. The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines. (UPDATE): Moreover, as Soccer Dad reminds me, within two months after Rabin's assassination Israel left every single major Palestinian city except for Hebron. In other words the peace process accelerated after the assassination. It was only after the terror attacks of Feb-March 1996 that the peace process went off track. So who are these anonymous historians that Vick confidently quotes, and what are their credentials? Vick goes on: Violence erupted in 2000, and Israel's peace camp was destroyed in the face of the ensuing wave of Palestinian suicide bombings. The center of Israeli politics shifted firmly to the right."Violence erupted" as journalists have done hundreds of times, Arab terror is something that simply happens by itself, without any responsibility. Most outrageously, to Vick, the tragedy of the second intifada wasn't that Arabs were slaughtering Jews by the hundreds - it was that their deaths killed the Israeli peace camp. Vick, of course, doesn't mention that prime minister Olmert went way beyond the Israeli offer in 2000, showing that even with so many murdered killed during the PLO's and Hamas' terror spree, Israel still wanted peace. That narrative doesn't make it into the mainstream media which is wedded to the lie that Jews are the only people responsible for setbacks to peace. Then Vick just makes things up: Two decades after the White House signing, Palestinians have less income, less land and much less freedom than they did in 1993.The implication is that this is all Israel's fault. They may have less income and less freedom - but that is because of the terrorism that forced Israel to separate Arabs from Jews. Does Vick think that an international border between Israel and "Palestine" would allow workers to freely enter Israel? But how can Vick say they have "less land"? There was no Palestinian Arab autonomy before Oslo, but now 100% of Gazans and about 97% of West Bank Palestinian Arabs live under Arab rule, with Arab security forces, Arab infrastructure and in what are virtually two separate Arab states, one of which is recognized by most of the world's nations. Vick's bias is once again obvious. Yet these lies are the accepted conventional wisdom, and Time doesn't even bother to fact check it. 
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