| Who is trying to erase history?noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 29 Apr 04:45 AM Fakhri Abu Diab, an anti-Israel activist from east Jerusalem who gets | | Fakhri Abu Diab, an anti-Israel activist from east Jerusalem who gets lots of interviews with fellow Israel-haters, is accusing Israel of erasing Palestinian history.
Naturally, he is doing it by trying to erase Jewish history.
In an article in Safa, also published in a Jordanian news site, Abu Diab complains about a new tourist center Israel is building near the Western Wall. The researcher in Jerusalem affairs, Fakhri Abu Diab, says occupation authorities have taken advantage of the "Corona" period and the decrease in tourism movement in the city of Jerusalem to accelerate the establishment of a Judaic tourist center at the bottom of Al-Buraq Square [the Western Wall plaza.] He explains that the occupation continued its excavations under the Al-Buraq Wall to establish huge religious and tourist Jewish halls and centers to serve Israelis and extremist settlers, and to establish their Talmudic rituals and prayers. According to Abu Diab, the tourist center includes several halls and small rooms for displaying films, video clips and theatrical plays that explain false Talmudic narratives, and simulate an alleged Jewish civilization and history, at the...Read More |
From Ian: Human Rights Watch's long war against Israel HRW also refers to 6.8 million Jewish Israelis and 6.8 million Palestinians living between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River, maliciously blurring the distinctions between Arab-Israeli citizens, and Palestinians living under autonomous self-rule in the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority, and in Gaza, under Hamas's brutal dictatorship. HRW further erases the distinct identity of Israel's Arab citizens by lumping them under the blanket term "Palestinian," although only 7 percent identify as such, and many belong to minority religious or cultural communities, such as Druze, Bedouin, Christian Aramean and Circassian. In HRW's fantasy world, Palestinian terror is practically non-existent. According to HRW, most Israeli security measures "have no legitimate security justifications." HRW's dismissal of Israeli security concerns entirely ignores or whitewashes the thousands of Israelis brutally murdered or maimed by ongoing Palestinian terror. Finally, HRW dishonestly claims that Gaza is under Israeli occupation and blames the humanitarian crisis there solely on Israel, despite Egypt's blockade of its borders and the fact that Israel withdrew from it completely in 2005. The Hamas terror organization has exclusively ruled Gaza since 2007, and is solely responsible for its failed rule and resulting humanitarian catastrophe. It is...Read More |
Thirty-six rockets were fired at Israel on Friday night, disturbing the Sabbath peace of Israeli civilians living in the south of Israel. Three more rockets were shot into Southern Israel on Saturday night, with a further three rockets launched at Israel on Sunday night. Where I live, in Efrat, rockets are so rare as to be almost nonexistent. But where my grandchildren live, in the South, rockets are the norm. What does it feel like to be targeted, to live with sirens and explosions, ruined homes and death? I put the same five questions to each of three women in Southern Israel, all of them native English speakers, and all of them teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL), to see how they cope under fire. First, a bit about the women: Adele Raemer Born in the United States, Adele Raemer has lived on Nirim, a kibbutz on the border with Gaza, since 1975. A mother and grandmother, Raemer is affiliated with "The Movement for the Future of the Western Negev," and "Achdut Im Hadarom" (Unity with the South). A teacher of EFL, Raemer is also an EFL teacher trainer and counselor for the Israeli Ministry of Education and a Tech Integration Coach. Aside from all these qualifications and the rest of her busy life, Adele is a blogger and dedicated YouTuber on the subject of all things digital, and other things, too. You might, for instance, hear her talk about her side-gig as a trained medical clown. Raemer spends...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal The first thing you need to know about the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that was released on 27 April accusing Israel of "apartheid" is that the accusation has nothing to do with apartheid as most people understand it, the racially-based system of oppression that was in place in South Africa before roughly 1991. HRW is accusing Israel of "crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution," which are defined by a treaty called the "International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid," based on a UN General Assembly resolution passed in 1973, and the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. It should be noted that neither Israel nor the USA are parties to either treaty. The 1973 convention was signed by 109 countries, which do not include Israel, the USA, Canada, Australia, or any of the developed countries of Western Europe. Here is the definition of the crime of apartheid as understood by HRW: 1. An intent to maintain domination by one...Read More |
From Ian: EU moves to stop funding Palestinian terrorists, inciting textbooks The European Parliament Wednesday reaffirmed its commitment to ensure EU funds do not reach anyone affiliated with terrorists. It also rapped UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, for iinciting hate and violence in their textbooks. The legislature's annual budgetary report says the EU must "thoroughly verify" that its funds are not "allocated or linked to any cause or form of terrorism and/or religious and political radicalization." Any funds that did go to any person or organization with terror ties must be "proactively recovered, and recipients involved are excluded from future Union funding." The article in the report came following an ongoing dispute between Palestinian NGOs and the EU over the affiliations of some of the organizations' leadership and employees. Palestinian NGOs demanded that the EU erase a stipulation that aid can only be sent to organizations without ties to EU-designated terrorist groups, claiming that groups like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is designated a terrorist group in the EU, US, Canada and Israel, and has been responsible for many terrorist attacks on Israelis, are political parties. Last March, EU Representative to West Bank and Gaza Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff wrote in an official letter to...Read More |
This is interesting: I don't know if this is completely legit, the video is from Arutz-7 so perhaps they were given permission by the IDF to document this, although the soldiers seem to be hamming it up a little.
One interesting comment on YouTube in both Hebrew and English (I'm combining them):
"Thank God, for 72 full months I was in such a unit over 19 year period as a Chasidic Haredi Jewish soldier. I merited to the revelation of the light of G-d's presence through so many revealed miracles daily, monthly and yearly, that were so strong that I went from simple belief in G-d to truly knowing G-d."
(h/t Yerushalimey, Yoel) * * * * * *
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To be a good intelligence officer, one needs to be able to look at the facts dispassionately and without bias. Based on the editorial he just wrote for the New York Times, former CIA director John Brennan is an incompetent intelligence analyst.
He starts off with describing how humiliating checkpoints are - based on a short fictional film. I knew that Israel had legitimate security concerns in the aftermath of the 1967 and 1973 wars, worries that had been heightened by attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets by Palestinian terrorist organizations. Half a century has passed, and the political and security landscape of the Middle East has profoundly changed. Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. The Abraham Accords, brokered by the United States last year, have paved the way for four more Arab states — the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco — to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. There also has been significant progress in reducing violence carried out by Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories. The exception is Hamas, which continues to launch rocket attacks into Israel from the Gaza Strip. The implication is that checkpoints are no longer necessary because the Palestinian security forces are adequate to do the job. In 2009...Read More |
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