| UNRWA commissioner claims the agency is not political. It is nothing BUT political! noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 21 Apr 04:45 AM Philippe Lazzarin | | Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner General of UNRWA, wrote an article in Al Jazeera with some whopping lies.
The lies start with the headline: Calling them "refugees" is political! There is only one definition of refugee, and it is that of the Refugee Convention. Saying that Palestinian descendants of those who fled their homes in 1948 are "refugees" is political. Saying that Palestinians who still live in the areas of the British Mandate are "refugees" is political. Saying that nearly two million citizens of Jordan are "refugees" is political.
UNRWA is a purely political organization. It only exists to perpetuate itself.
Mohammad is a seven-year-old boy living in Gaza, which in June will enter its 15th year of a land, air, and sea blockade. Like the nearly 300,000 students in Gaza who attend schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), he has been in and out of in-person and remote learning since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic a year ago. He battles against electricity cuts every day to receive online educational materials prepared by UNRWA teachers who also struggle to get access to electricity and the internet. Mohammad's right to education remains inalienable even during a pandemic and a humanitarian crisis.Guess what? Most students on the planet have struggled during the past year! Here's a...Read More |
From Ian: Scientists: Israel proves every developed country can subdue COVID with vaccines Prominent scientists say the transformation of Israel from a COVID-19 hotspot to a vaccination success story underlines that any developed country can subdue the virus. They estimate that a relatively small number of vaccinations are needed to take a country out of crisis mode. The moment that half of the population aged 60-plus is inoculated, authorities can expect a dramatic drop in cases and hospitals are safe from being overwhelmed, they conclude. The claims come from authors of a detailed report, published as a peer-reviewed article in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, on just how dire a COVID situation Israel faced in the early weeks of the vaccination campaign, especially as the new, highly infectious British variant was on the rampage. "Israel was facing a range of factors that made the situation here particularly difficult, and if it succeeded despite all of this, and we could achieve a rapid decline in cases, then any developed country can," Prof. Dan Yamin of Tel Aviv University told The Times of Israel. He said that most other Western countries are in a better situation as they embark, or prepare to embark, on their vaccination programs, and therefore can be particularly confident upon seeing Israel's infection, hospitalization, and death rates hit...Read More |
During the funeral for Mohammad Hejazi, the deputy commander of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force who died under mysterious circumstances on Sunday, an interesting statement was made by a prominent mourner.
Hejazi's commander, Brigadier General Ismail Qaani, said "the resistance fronts today in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and the sons of the resistance elsewhere take a big step every day in confronting enemies, including the United States and Israel, and they will continue to do so until they reach a world government."
A world government? Those are some pretty ambitious plans!
I found a 2013 article in the same news site that said: Ali Motahari, the deputy in the Islamic Consultative Assembly in Iran, said: "We believe that Islam will rule the world and a single world government will be formed, but this does not mean that Iran wants to extend hegemony and power over all countries of the world by force, because this is illogical and impossible, but the world must understand Iran's message and the Islamic revolution." Prominent Iranian cleric Ayatollah Hossan Ansarian...Read More |
At first glance, this article at Religion Dispatches at first looks like a parody of wokespeak. It includes paragraphs like this: The language and, we argue, the conceptual categories in which the discourse on Jewish continuity traffics, even by its critics, remain beholden to essentializing cisheteronormative and binary-gendered frameworks. The discourse continues to reduce and reproduce an uninterrogated reliance on reproductive models that privilege monogamy, marriage, and the state, alongside marginalizing conceptions of "community," "leadership," and binary sexgendered divisions of labor, especially reproductive labor. While it is easy to laugh at this substitution of nonsense for clear writing, the actual arguments of the two authors is much more dangerous. Their jumping off point is a recent Forward article that says that a tiny number of people are attempting to bring back Steven Cohen into mainstream discourse on Jewish community issues. Cohen was forced to resign from his position at Hebrew Union College after it was revealed that he had engaged in a decades long pattern of sexual harassment. It is clear that most Jews in Jewish studies are...Read More |
From Ian: Minivan Driver Arrested After 'Horrific' Hit-and-Run Assault on Brooklyn Hasidim New York police have arrested the driver responsible for a deliberate hit-and-run attack Saturday on five Brooklyn Hasidim, the New York Daily News reported Monday. The minivan driver was caught on camera intentionally backing up into five pedestrians in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, striking the victims twice and initially lingering on the scene before ultimately speeding away. "Horrific antisemitic attack in Williamsburg," tweeted the American Jewish Committee. "A driver pulls over, waits for a group of Jewish men to cross the street, and intentionally hits them twice with his car. We stand in full solidarity with the victims and thank @NYPD90Pct for the swift arrest of a suspect." The NYPD reportedly nabbed the suspect — Shokhobiddin Bakhritdinovon, 26 — on Sunday, after his car was spotted by members of Shomrim, a neighborhood watch group. Update:https://t.co/15k90e6KJo — WILLIAMSBURG NEWS (@WMSBG) April 18, 2021 The Daily News reporting that the victims were five male relatives ranging in age from 11 to 82, with the oldest individual requiring medical attention for a foot injury...Read More |
In April 1941, 70 US senators joined in calling for "every possible encouragement to the movement for the restoration of the Jews in Palestine" as being the "declared policy of the United States," and offering support to the re-establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, in an effort spearheaded by Senator Robert F . Wagner, chairman of the American Palestine Committee . The declaration noted: 280,000 refugees came into Palestine since the advent of the Nazi regime in Germany in 1933. The unprecedented work of rehabilitation of the Holy Land and the restoration of a people has proceeded uninterruptedly and is continuing even now despite war conditions. Palestine has been recognized and set apart by Great Britain with the approval of the United States and other nations as a haven for the Jewish people, and refugees are streaming to its shores despite restrictive measures recently enforced by the Administration of that country. The tragic plight of refugees fleeing from persecution and finding no home, a situation brought so dramatically to the attention of the world by the sinking of refugee ships with their human cargo, must compel our attention and strengthen our resolve to extend every possible encouragement to the movement for the restoration of the Jews in Palestine as a great humanitarian effort and in accordance with the spirit...Read More |
As soon as the news was announced that Mohammad Hejazi, the deputy commander of Iran's elite Quds Force died of a heart attack, there was intense skepticism whether that was the true cause of death. One prominent Iranian tweeted that Hejazi did not die of a heart attack, but his post was removed almost immediately. Now, Ava Today says that he might have been murdered by Iran - as a suspected Israeli spy! Two sources inside IRGC told Avatoday that Hejazi's death is suspicious among his circle as they knew he was being monitored by the regime for the last 10 days. According to one of the sources, "IRGC was suspicious of several of its members who were close to Hejazi to have a role in last week's explosion in Natanz nuclear site." "Also, several members of Lebanese Hezbollah who were Israeli insiders, were close to Hejazi," the sources said. I have no idea of any of this is true.
If Israel is recruiting agents at that high a level in Iran, that would be amazing. And if Iran only suspects that so many of its top officials are really Israeli spies, that is a good thing, too. * * * * * *
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