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- Did the US recognize Palestine as a state in 1932?
- 10/28 Links Pt2: Palestinian Terms Leave Little to Talk About, Bandar Candour, Paula Abdul Visits Israel.
- Gays, Kurds not protected in Turkish hate-crimes draft bill
- Even an Arabic article about Baghdad's Jewish cemetery can't avoid antisemitism
- Crazy Daily Beast article blames Zionism for Christian indifference to Muslim persecution
- 10/28 Links Pt1: Glick- Israel’s European challenge, Prisoner Release- Quid pro what?
- White paper: EU Partnership for Peace Programme: Throwing Money Away on Palestinian NGOs
- More rockets from Gaza
- Introducing ASHREI - A new human rights organization
| Did the US recognize Palestine as a state in 1932? Posted: 28 Oct 2013 07:08 PM PDT An email correspondent sent me part of a discussion from Mondoweiss that claimed that the US recognized Palestine as a state in 1932. The assertion: FYI, the US government formally recognized the Mandated State of Palestine in 1932. For example, the case of "Kletter v. Dulles, Secretary of State", the United States District Court District Of Columbia ruled in 1953 that Mr. Kletter had lost his US citizenship when he was naturalized in the Mandated State of Palestine:So I looked up the case. It does indeed state that. However, the writer ignores that the case quotes an earlier case that defines the terms a bit better: When the Congress speaks of a "foreign State," it means a country which is not the United States, or its possession or colony — an alien country — other than our own, bearing in mind that the average American, when he speaks of a "foreigner," means an alien, non-American. Uyeno v. Acheson, D.C., 96 F.Supp. 510.Looking at Uyeno vs. Acheson, we see: It is obvious that the words "foreign state" are not words of art. In using them, the Congress did not have in mind the fine distinctions as to sovereignty of occupied and unoccupied countries which authorities on international law may have formulated. They used the word in the sense of "otherness". When the Congress speaks of "foreign state", it means a country which is not the United States or its possession or colony, — an alien country, — other than our own, bearing in mind that the average American, when he speaks of a "foreigner" means an alien, non-American.So the full context shows without any room for doubt that the US did not recognize British Mandate Palestine as a state, rather it was recognized as a foreign entity. The phrase"foreign state" was used for convenience, not as a legal ruling. This is the quality of arguments of the anti-Israel crowd. Scratch a little and you see that they don't bother to read the very text they are quoting. There is actually an entire book by John Quigley that tries to pretend that Palestine was a real state before 1948. Part of his argument is that Great Britain in 1932 gave Palestine (at the behest of Jewish leaders) "most favoured nation" status for purposes of easing tariffs so Jews in Palestine could export wine and fruit to England easier. The argument is that if Palestine was a "most favoured nation" then it must have been legally considered a nation by Great Britain. This is of course absurd. The UK was looking for a legal fiction to allow easier exports from Palestine, it was not making a legal decision that Palestine was a state! Yet Quigley further argues, bizarrely, that this supposed recognition of Palestine as a state in the 1930s carries over to today, as if there is a legal relationship between what was called Palestine at the time and a Palestinian state today, purposefully ignoring that Israel and only Israel took over the political institutions of Palestine. However, the "most favoured nation" argument that Palestine was considered a nation by Great Britain can be demolished in an even easier way. Because Great Britain said explicitly that Palestine was not a state in a memo to the UN in early 1948! In that memo, the United Kingdom says: "Palestine is today a legal entity but it is not a sovereign state." It doesn't get more explicit than that. Quigley, not surprisingly, doesn't mention this quote.           | ||
| Posted: 28 Oct 2013 03:15 PM PDT From Ian: David Singer: Bandar Candour Can Help End Arab-Jewish Conflict 23 years ago in an Open Letter published in the Washington Times on 30 September 1990 – Bandar – then Saudi Arabia's Ambassador in America – had publicly criticised Jordan's King Hussein for his failure to create a Palestinian Arab State in the West Bank between 1948-1967.Palestinians make stiff land demands for peace deal The Palestinian Authority demands that any land swap with Israel as part of a peace deal not exceed 1.9 percent of the West Bank, less than half of the land necessary to incorporate the lion's share of settlers, according to details leaked to Channel 2 by a disgruntled Palestinian official on Sunday.Palestinian Terms Leave Little to Talk About Peace is not just about pressuring parties to come to the table, though it must be conceded that Kerry's efforts in this regard were impressive. In order for the diplomatic process to succeed there must be a desire to reach some sort of accommodation. But any discussion that involves terms that basically mandate the end of Israel illustrates that the Jewish state's alleged peace partner is not genuinely interested in ending the conflict.What would the UN do without Israel? The United Nations often has a hostile approach to Israel, yet regularly turns to the Jewish state to solve issues of international concern.Ending boycott, Israel to attend UN human rights hearing Then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman ordered the severing of Israeli ties with the council in March 2012 after the international organization said it would probe how Israeli settlements may be infringing on the rights of Palestinians.BBC double standards on paramilitary murals Not only does the BBC not adopt the language and narrative of paramilitary terrorist organisations when describing murals depicting them in Northern Ireland; it goes to the trouble of informing audiences about the violent reality of the actions of those groups and the perceived effects of such murals on the Northern Ireland peace process. So why does it embrace the double standard of romanticisation of terror in another part of the world?CAMERA: Ari Shavit's Lydda Massacre Israeli wrongdoing, whether real or imagined, holds a special fascination for certain media outlets, which seem to get a particular thrill from putting Israel under the microscope. Writing about genuine bloodletting in other parts of the world just isn't as much fun as indicting Israelis for supposed massacres, and thereby once again putting Zionism – and therefore the Jews – on trial.Sidney Blumenthal's Idiot Racist Son Survives Trip Through Israeli Airport Some people travel through deserts. Others skydive from space. Max Blumenthal, Sidney Blumenthal's idiot son, gets his thrills trying to make it through an Israeli airport.Victim of Sydney Attack: That's Why We Need Israel Ben Haim is the JNF representative in Australia. "Unfortunately, what happened to us of Sabbath eve proves beyond a doubt how fatefully important the existence of the Jewish state is for any Jew, no matter where he is," he said Sunday, according to Maariv.JPost Editorial: Anti-Semitism in Australia Although some websites jumped to the conclusion, based on inconclusive security camera footage that captured part of the attack, that the assailants – two 16-yearolds and a 23-year-old – were Muslims, an Australian source said that only the adult's name was released, and it sounded "southern European."Hate Unleashed This is evidence of growing anti-Semitism in Sydney, which is not limited to brutal physical assaults allegedly committed by morons. A crude loathing of Jews and Israel is also obvious in protests against the Max Brenner chain of chocolate shops, which is Jewish-owned.Sydney Chabad Rabbi: Attack Shocked Everyone VIDEO Rabbi Eli Feldman from Chabad of Sydney, Australia, told Arutz Sheva Monday that "both Jewish community and larger Australian community were shocked" by the anti-Semitic attack in Bondi on Shabbat.A round-up of coverage and reactions: Attack on Jewish group in Bondi Local firefighters head to Israel to observe how they deal with tragedies The firefighters are made up of five different agencies across the greater Tucson area. They met at a midtown cafe on Sunday to thank their sponsors. The $40,000 trip was fully funded by donations. The firefighters will learn how Israeli first responders deal with some of the biggest disasters and bring their knowledge back to Tucson.Paula Abdul to get Kotel bat mitzvah After a delay of of almost four decades, American singer and reality show star Paula Abdul, 51, will finally realize her dream of celebrating her bat mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.Lou Reed's Stand for Israel and against Anti-Semitism Reed, who died yesterday of liver failure at the age of 71, was born Lewis Allan Reed to a Jewish family in Brooklyn. He said that while "he had no god apart from rock 'n' roll" his Jewish roots and standing up for Israel meant a lot to him. He was a frequent visitor to the country, last performing in Tel Aviv in 2008, and his aunt and many cousins live in Haifa and other Israeli towns.Danish crown prince's visit commemorates rescue of Jews It's been over 900 years between visits of Scandinavian royals to Jerusalem.The Next Stage in IDF Air Defense      | ||
| Gays, Kurds not protected in Turkish hate-crimes draft bill Posted: 28 Oct 2013 01:40 PM PDT From Hurriyet Daily News: A draft presented to the Cabinet concerning hate crimes does not include provisions for those targeted because of their sexual orientation or ethnic identity.Sounds like EU material, no?      | ||
| Even an Arabic article about Baghdad's Jewish cemetery can't avoid antisemitism Posted: 28 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT  Ziad al-Bayati took over responsibility for the cemetery from his father. I did find a Forward article from 2004 that indicated that one of the last Iraqi Jews was involved in fixing up the cemetery which had been neglected for decades, and gravestones damaged during the Gulf War were rebuilt. And yet even in this article there has to be some old fashioned Jew-hatred. The writer interviews an Iraqi "researcher" Ahmed Jawad who says: It is a sign of the spirit of tolerance of Muslims, who respect the lives and bodies of their offenders, while fanatical Jewish organizations attack Muslim cemeteries in Jerusalem's Old City and the cities of Palestine and even in the European continent, as in Germany and France. Incidentally, the 2004 article notes: Visitors to the Jewish cemetery in the turbulent Shia neighborhood of Sadr City, the scene of some of the most vicious fighting in recent weeks, have been stoned more than once by school children.      | ||
| Crazy Daily Beast article blames Zionism for Christian indifference to Muslim persecution Posted: 28 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Fellow of St. Cross College and Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford University. Here's his bizarre thesis: [O]ne of the silences which I find most frustrating is precisely the lack of noise from Western Christians about the fate of ancient Christianities in the Middle East. At the heart of the problems in the Middle East is seven decades of unresolved conflict between Israel and Palestine, and I notice that when American politicians discuss those matters, they seem to assume that all Palestinians, and indeed all Arabs, are Muslims. Not so: there are Christians there too.... Why this blindness, why this silence?Given that every single Christmas for over a century there have been articles in major American and British papers about the Christian community in Bethlehem, this first assertion seems not very plausible. (Not to mention that even after seeing two years of Arab upheavals, MacCulloch still places Israel at the center of all Middle East problems.) But even if US politicians were uncommonly stupid, isn't this article about the silence of normal Christians? Are they equally unaware that Christians live in the Middle East? His second unrelated point: The problem is a Protestant one, going right back to sixteenth-century Reformation. From Martin Luther onwards, many Protestants have eagerly been awaiting an imminent end to the world, the return of Christ in glory. Reading the Bible, it's easy to link this to the idea that a necessary precondition for Christ to return is that his ancient people the Jews convert to the Christian faith...But by the nineteenth century there was a further thought: the Jews must return to their Promised Land of Israel. In 1846 there was founded a worldwide Evangelical Alliance. One of its main concerns was to return Jews to Palestine and convert them there...Yeah, we know that. So let's go to a third mostly unrelated point: Fast-forward to the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. For some years after that, American relations with Israeli governments were dominated by power politics. ... [I]n the 1980s [American politicians] discovered a large constituency emphatically in favour of Israel, precisely for reasons related to the apocalypse....OK, so the US - by siding with Israel to make US evangelicals happy - has caused Arab Muslims to turn against Arab Christians. Um, what? This has to be one of the most bizarre anti-Israel arguments I've ever seen, and I've seen some doozies. Although to call it an "argument" seems too charitable. It is more a vain attempt to blame Israel for Christian suffering throughout the Arab world by throwing things against the wall and hoping they would stick. Exactly how does one draw a line from "US support for Israel" to "Muslims drive Christians out of all Arab countries"? How much can one twist facts in order to absolve Arabs from their actions? But MacCulloch's theory is even nuttier. He still doesn't give a reason for those crazy evangelicals to ignore their fellow Christians. If they were all Islamophobes, wouldn't they be in the forefront of the campaign to defend Arab Christians from Muslims? Apparently, somehow, their support for Israel means that they don't have the mental capacity to understand that more than one thing can happen in the Middle East at once. It must be that they are just too stupid. That's not all. MacCulloch thinks that US Zionist evangelicals are the only Christians on the planet who have the ability to help their fellow Christians. What about non-evangelical Americans? What about the entire continent of South America? What about European Christians? Are they all completely impotent because US Zionist Christians have taken over the entire religion? What continent is the Vatican in again? The entire article reveals much more about MacCulloch's mentality than about any reality in the Middle East. Rather than try to puzzle out the illogic of this piece, try this on for size: 1) MacCulloch is upset that Christians have been silent about Muslim persecution. 2) MacCulloch hates Israel and Christian Zionists. 3) Therefore, Israel and Zionism must be at fault for Christian apathy. The rest is all detail. (And absolving the actual people doing the persecution is obligatory, as long as Zionists can be somehow blamed.) Even the Daily Beast employee who wrote the subheading of the article can't quite figure out MacCulloch's argument: Why has the suffering of the Middle Eastern Christian communities not ignited outrage and support from Western Christians? The answer has something to do with Israel and the Second Coming, writes Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch. (h/t Daniel F)      | ||
| 10/28 Links Pt1: Glick- Israel’s European challenge, Prisoner Release- Quid pro what? Posted: 28 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT From Ian: Elliott Abrams: Obama's 'new' Mideast policy: Modesty or pullback? Saturday's New York Times carries a remarkable story about the "new" Obama Middle East policy, based on interviews with National Security Advisor Susan Rice. The Times describes the policy as "modest," but that is not the right word. The policy defines an American abandonment of leadership in the region.Caroline Glick: Israel's European challenge As for Israel, we need to recognize first and foremost that we do not control what happens in Europe. In adopting anti- Israel policies, European leaders are not responding to actions Israel undertakes. When 40 percent of Europeans tell pollsters they believe that Israel is enacting a genocide against the Palestinians, it is clear that European views of Israel are not based on facts of any kind, and certainly not on anything Israel does.Iran's Terror Entity in Lebanon The situation was also addressed by Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan, who unveiled a government plan to find solutions quickly for the 30% of Israeli civilians who do not have rocket-proof rooms in their apartments, or access to bomb shelters in their buildings or the immediate vicinity.Quid pro what? Netanyahu is now paying a price for the public's lack of confidence in disproportionate gestures made toward the Palestinians. The public wants to know what Israel is getting in return. Are the Palestinians finally willing to accept Netanyahu's list of conditions and sign a permanent peace deal? Will they recognize Israel as a Jewish state? Will they agree to Israel having defensible borders? Will they give up on Jerusalem and the right of return?Edelstein: Prisoners released this week will commit more acts of terror "We stood for the principle of negotiations without preconditions before this process began, but this morning the names of arch-terrorists with blood on their hands were already publicized," Edelstein wrote on Facebook.Jews are Sitting Ducks on Hebrew U. Route The security situation is worsening on the road leading to Hebrew University's Mount Scopus (Har Hatzofim) Campus from the direction of the Arab village of Issawiya, a local resident tells Arutz Sheva.Terror Attack Thwarted in Hevron A young terrorist, estimated to be about 16 years old, was arrested this afternoon (Sunday) by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) after attempting to stab soldiers standing guard outside the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron.BBC continues to ignore non-fatal terror attacks As we saw in the lead up to last year's 'Operation Pillar of Cloud', the fact that the BBC had consistently ignored the majority of the preceding missile fire and other attacks (putting no reporter on the ground in towns and cities such as Ashkelon and Netivot until Israel responded to six weeks of paralysing missile attacks) meant that – with BBC audiences oblivious of the context – it was then able to erroneously claim that the violence began with Israel's targeting of Ahmed Jabari and to make the bizarre assertion that the operation was part of the incumbent Israeli government's election campaign.Hamas losing $230m a month from tunnel closures Egypt's closure of smuggling tunnels between the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip is costing Hamas $230 million in lost revenue every month, a senior official in the Islamist organization said on Sunday.Netanyahu: 'Most, If Not All, Leaders' Agree With Israel on Iran Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted Sunday that despite appearances, Israel is not alone in its insistence that Iran be prevented by the West from maintaining the ability to build nuclear weapons.Netanyahu Says Discussion Over Iranian Uranium Enrichment to 20% is 'Unimportant' "Iran is willing to give up on enriching uranium to 20% and therefore a discussion on this issue is unimportant," he said, at the start of his government's weekly cabinet meeting. "The importance of the issue became superfluous in the wake of the technological improvements that allow Iran to enrich uranium from 3.5% to 90% in a number of weeks. Pressure on Iran should be increased because it is continuing enrichment even as it negotiates."Banners reflect hard-line backlash in Iran Banners that suddenly cropped up around Tehran in the past week depict an American diplomat dressed in a jacket and tie, while under the negotiating table he is wearing military pants and pointing a shotgun at an Iranian envoy.The new 'moderate' Iran: 16 Baluchi political prisoners hanged in act of vengeance - West ignores it Obama, the EU - and of course the entire main stream Western media - are so desperate to maintain the nonsensical narrative of a new 'moderate' Iran that there has been barely a mention of this story that can be found at the bottom of page 32 of today's Telegraph.Partitioning Syria After two-and-a-half years of steadily metastasizing violence in Syria, the harsh reality is that the country isn't going to become a stable, unified state again in the foreseeable future, let alone a remotely democratic one. It may be time to start thinking about alternatives.Syrian rebels reject peace talks in Geneva Nineteen Syrian opposition groups rejected the upcoming Geneva II conference scheduled for November 23 and 24 to negotiate an end to the crisis, labeling any participation an "act of treason."Syrian Rebels Claim to Find 'Israeli Spying Device' The rebels posted a video, shortly after capturing the city of Tafas in the Deraa region from Assad's forces. In the video the rebels present the alleged "spying device" which, they claimed, was used by the Syrian army against rebels.MEMRI: Satirist Bassem Youssef Criticizes Violence by Egyptian Rule, General Sisi's Personality Cult      | ||
| White paper: EU Partnership for Peace Programme: Throwing Money Away on Palestinian NGOs Posted: 28 Oct 2013 07:00 AM PDT Here is the first white paper to be released by ASHREI-ME, the organization I announced earlier today.      | ||
| Posted: 28 Oct 2013 05:00 AM PDT YNet reports: Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired two rockets toward south Israel at dawn on Monday. A number of explosions were heard shortly after the "Color Red" siren warning of the incoming rockets sounded in communities located within the Ashkelon Beach Regional Council.The Gaza NSO recorded other incidents recently that did not make the news: 10/27/2013 13:30 27 OCT, 1315: Pal. ops. fired 3 mortar shells from Abasan, E of KY [Khan Younis], toward the Green Line.      | ||
| Introducing ASHREI - A new human rights organization Posted: 28 Oct 2013 02:00 AM PDT  ASHREI-ME (Middle East) is a new organization/website I am creating to highlight human rights issues in the Middle East that get ignored by other human rights NGOs. Started up with no money and no paid workers, ASHREI seeks to shine a light on:
In addition, ASHREI exposes the bias of other human rights organizations who concentrate disproportionate effort and resources to demonize Israel while downplaying or ignoring HR issues in its neighbors. Time permitting, I will be adding more material on these themes, both from here and from other researchers who have not found an outlet or an audience for their work. I don't know where this will go or if it will gain any traction. But some topics covered here are too important to let them be forgotten as new posts replace the old ones. I hope to make ASHREI a repository and resource for solid, reliable information on these critical issues. It is frustrating to see the entire concept of human rights get hijacked by organizations who can't distinguish between real human rights issues and their political viewpoints. Everyone deserves human rights. ASHREI seeks to help, in a small way, highlight the human rights of those who are ignored by the existing NGO community. Browse ASHREI-ME today!      |
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