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- Libyan TV approvingly shows people beating up fake "Israeli" reporters
- When speaking to Jews as human beings is a worse sin than genocide
- That elusive, magic moment when the Judea and Samaria became "occupied Palestinian territories"
| Libyan TV approvingly shows people beating up fake "Israeli" reporters Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:46 AM PDT  This was shown on Libyan TV, where a "reporter" with a crude Israeli flag microphone asked shopkeepers if they thought Libya should trade with Israel. In the segments we can see, the "reporter" was berated and beaten, to the delight of viewers. (h/t iTi)           |
| When speaking to Jews as human beings is a worse sin than genocide Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:00 AM PDT  Electronic Intifada published an article from Hind Khoudary, cashing in on her fame from informing Hamas about a Zoom meeting between Gaza and Israeli peace activists, resulting in the abduction and disappearance of Rami Aman three weeks ago. Khoudary, a former Amnesty contractor who described herself as a human rights activist until this incident, shows off the insanity that is the accepted Palestinian mentality - and this is accepted by the anti-Israel crowd as if it makes sense. Her article includes these examples of what only can be described as psychological illness. She describes her reaction to hearing Aman in the Zoom meeting say that most Gazans want peace with Israel: "I grew so angry listening to this meeting, I started to shake. This was normalization, pure and simple. To me, there is no greater sin." No greater sin than Arabs speaking to Jews on Zoom as if they are human beings? Of Arabs seeking peace through dialogue? Worse than gang rapes? Worse than genocide? Worse than blowing up buses and hotels and pizza shops filled with kids? To Khoudary and Electronic Intifada, that is indeed the case. She doubles down: I believe that the worst sin any Palestinian can commit is normalization.She paints herself as a victim: I know that what happened may affect my future career, my relationship with international organizations I've worked with before, even my online presence. I have already been kicked out of a couple of online journalism groups.But she knows that she has equally insane haters who share her pathology of Jew-hatred: But I've also received a lot of support from Palestinians, ordinary folk, journalists and political activists.And she breezily dismisses anyone who disagrees: And to those who ask how resolution and peace can ever be reached without "dialogue," the answer is simple: Peace begins when occupation ends.Besides the absurdity of demanding that Israel just give back land without negotiations, Khoudary betrays what she considers "occupation" to be - and to her, it didn't start in 1967. She wrote earlier, "The root cause of Palestinian misery is the creation of the State of Israel." Which means that she is not demanding Israel end "occupation" - she is demanding that Israel dismantle itself. Only then, she says, could there be peace. This is the reason the Arab world has grown tired of the Palestinian issue. Israel has given the Palestinians land and self-rule - more than any Arab regime has ever given any of their many minorities - and the response has been terror, rejectionism and demands way beyond the foolhardy Israeli peace offers of years past. Khoudary's rants hurt her cause more than she can even imagine. People like Khoudary think that they have support because a fringe of crazed anti-Israel activists show support for her extremist positions. Similarly, Palestinians still pretend they have support because the UN and the Arab League still issues statements bashing Israel and expressing solidarity with Palestinians. But they are closing their eyes to the truth - the Arab world and the Arab street are sick of them and their refusal to accept peace. As long as Khoudary is being positioned as a spokesperson for Palestinians at sites like EI. even the Europeans will start to follow suit and give up on the idea of statehood for immature, intransigent Palestinians. In that sense, I welcome Knoudary's screed where she claims that speaking to Israeli Jewish leftists is a worse crime than murdering Jews. I welcome Electronic Intifada publishing such pieces. Even as they think that they are bolstering their case (just as there was a fringe who used to justify Palestinian terror in the early 2000s) in reality they are the ones who are hammering the nails in the coffin of the Palestinian cause. Any Palestinians who truly want peace, who truly want a peaceful Palestinian state side by side with Israel, should be in the forefront of denouncing Khoudary and her fans. It is a shame that such people are so hard to find.      |
| That elusive, magic moment when the Judea and Samaria became "occupied Palestinian territories" Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:00 AM PDT This week was the 100th anniversary of the San Remo Conference that provides the legal basis for Israel's ownership of Judea and Samaria. I've never seen a convincing argument otherwise. The international community has not accepted that reasoning, but it is an interesting exercise to figure out exactly how the world - specifically, the UN - has looked at Judea and Samaria over the years. When did the territory become "Palestinian?" When Israel regained that land in 1967, nobody referred to it and Gaza as "Palestinian territories." The media sometimes called it "Israeli-occupied Jordan." But practically no one in the world accepted Jordan's annexation of the territory in 1950, and the UN certainly didn't. UN resolutions in the 1970s referred to "Occupied Arab Territories" but that was because they were including the Sinai and Golan Heights which no one considers to be "Palestinian." Often the documents punted on the idea of exactly whose territories were being occupied by saying "Occupied West Bank." One might think that the date that they became "Occupied Palestinian Territories," which the UN still refers to routinely as the "oPt." would be the date that Jordan formally gave up its claims on Judea and Samaria in 1988 and recognized the PLO as the sovereign of the territory. Even though Jordan itself had no legal right over the territory, perhaps that was the fig leaf that the UN used? However, the UN started referring to the west bank of the Jordan as "occupied Palestinian territory" years before. The earliest I can find is from the report of an international conference on the question of Palestine in 1983, which refers to "occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories." (I found an earlier reference to the phrase in 1981 but it was from a speech by a Jordanian delegate to the UN and not from an official UN document.) Also interestingly, the UN archive system seems to have changed the titles of some documents to refer to the "situation in the OPT" as early as 1979, but the documents themselves use no such language. Perhaps the UN archivist is trying to retroactively change history, but I'm not sure why they might have chosen 1979 as the start date.  If one does not accept Israel's argument from international law from San Remo, then there must be a date that the territories transferred to become "Palestinian." Transfer of territory is a legal matter that requires a legal transaction, whether it is a war or an agreement or an annexation. For those who do not accept Israel's claim, there is great confusion as to who legally owned the territory after the Ottoman Empire collapsed - was it the British? The League of Nations? And then, after 1948, was it Jordan? But besides the Palestinians themselves, no one said that the territory was Palestinian - until the 1980s when the idea gained currency. I still can't find that magic moment when the UN and the international community collectively decided that the land belonged to the PLO terror group, or to a people who nobody recognized as a people before the 1950s. This indicates that the purported Palestinian ownership of the land has been more propaganda than law. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help defend Israel.      |
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