| Hamas shows journalists a damaged school that appears to have been hit by a Hamas rocketnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 May 05:15 AM Yesterday, Ha | | Yesterday, Hamas took journalists through a damaged school to show how horrible Israel is. Note the pattern of tiny holes all over the walls. This not not how Israeli missiles work. Israeli attacks to Gaza have been as pinpoint as possible, for obvious reasons Israel wants to avoid collateral damage (it used to use cluster munitions, but it stopped that in 2006, although it is still criticized for exporting them to other countries.) Here is a home destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, probably belonging to a terrorist. There are very few small holes in the walls, unlike the damage from Hamas rockets. The spray pattern happens to be exactly what Hamas rocket damage looks like, though: Hundreds of rockets from terror groups fell short in Gaza, and it is likely that many of them caused deaths and serious damage. Save the Children claims 50 schools in Gaza were damaged in the recent fighting. The Palestinian Ministry of Education says the number was 187. There is no doubt that some schools were damaged as Israel attacked tunnels under streets that schools were on. Journalists clearly aren't asking how many of the schools shown by Hamas to gain sympathy were actually damaged by ....Hamas? (h/t Abu Ali Express...Read More |
From Ian: Eve Barlow: The Social Media Pogrom Two weeks ago, as Westerners began educating themselves about Sheikh Jarrah and the Iron Dome through stick figures with biased speech bubbles on the Diet Prada and Refinery29 Instagram feeds, something else started happening on social media. I coined it the world's first social media pogrom. The activity that Jews—Zionist Jews in particular—experienced all over the web was bizarre at best and invalidating, abusive, and dehumanizing at worst. Zionist Jews weren't just being unfollowed for advocating for themselves and their brothers and sisters in Israel and Palestine, we were also losing access to direct message and comment abilities, having posts removed for violating community guidelines (while blatant antisemitism online almost never receives the same treatment), and having our accounts threatened with temporary suspension or closure. The cherry on top, of course, was that we were simultaneously fighting off a barrage of thousands upon thousands of troll comments and hateful direct messages, which frequently included homophobic, misogynistic, and extremely violent language. Some people even generously took the time to record voice messages. I received a few of those, including one from a woman with a British accent calling for my family to burn in hell. She sang it. Or she tried to. The seeds of this pogrom have been sown for a while. Online...Read More |
The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality last week opened a lottery for people to purchase 28 apartments that are available at about 30% lower than the market price and the apartments.
The apartments are only available to Arab Christians and Muslims, not Jews.
The land originally belonged to Arabs before 1948.
To be sure, this is a very small project that took ten years to come to fruition. The housing is still expensive (roughly $400,000 per unit, much cheaper than comparable but hardly low income housing.)
The point is that the one sided vilification of Israel as always stealing land from Arabs is simplistic nonsense. Israel is a complex place and the people who hate Israel don't want you to know that things are not as simple as gets reported.
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Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Washington, May 26 - Diplomatic sources in the White House and Department of State have confirmed that in addition to the current administration refraining from reference to last year's historic peace agreements between Israel and several Persian Gulf states by their proper name, so as to avoid implying any positive achievement by their predecessors, a quiet rhetorical change in nomenclature has also taken place, under which representatives of the administration refer not to "Israel" but instead refer to it as "Jewville." Biden administration spokespeople indicated in separate on-background telephone interviews that a terminology shift is underway since the current president took office in January, whereby anyone providing an official stance must take pains not to allow the previous president, Donald Trump, any credit for his attainments while in office. Refusing to call the Abraham Accords by their official name, instead referring to them as "normalization agreements," helps to downplay that diplomatic coup by Trump and his adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner in forging those agreements between Israel and several Gulf nations that once bitterly opposed the Jewish State. "This rhetorical policy is of a piece with insisting...Read More |
From Ian: JPost Editorial: UNRWA's director spoke truth that Israeli strikes were precise- editorial When Matthias Schmale, director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, told Channel 12 on Sunday that Israeli airstrikes during the recent conflagration were "precise" and "sophisticated," he was simply stating the truth as he saw it. In the interview with journalist Arad Nir, Schmale was asked about the IDF's assertion that its military strikes against terrorist targets had been very precise. He responded, "I'm not a military expert, but I would not dispute that. I also have the impression that there is a huge sophistication in the way the Israeli military struck over the last 11 days, so that's not my issue. I've had many colleagues describe to me that they feel that, in comparison with the 2014 war, this time the strikes felt much more vicious in terms of their impact. So yes, they didn't hit – with some exceptions – civilian targets, but the viciousness, ferocity of the strikes was heavily felt." He noted that more than 60 children were killed in Gaza, including 19 who attended an UNRWA school. "I think the precision was there, but there was unacceptable and unbearable loss of life on the civilian side," Schmale stated. It did not take long for Gazans to voice outrage over Schmale's remarks, accusing him of exonerating...Read More |
Ahmed Nafea, writing in Egyptian news site SadaMisr, proposes ethnically cleansing Jews from the Middle East.
As usual, no one blinks or condemns these kinds of articles.
Nafea just discovered Birobidzhan, the Soviet-era Jewish Autonomous Oblast set up as a counter to Zionism. It is in an isolated region bordering China in far-east Asia. The Soviets encouraged Jews to move there, and several thousand did, with the population reaching some 50,000 Jews most of whom came as refugees after the Holocaust.
They didn't stay in the isolated region. The experiment failed miserably and today Jews make up 1% of the population of whom nearly none practice Judaism. Ahmed Nafea thinks this is the solution to that pesky Jewish problem, and says that Israel is hiding the existence of the entire oblast: The original homeland of the Jews is the forgotten Jewish republic of Birobidzhan. Yes, the first Jewish republic, Birobidzhan , is located in southeast Russia. The majority of the world is not aware of its existence because Israel is striving to conceal this fact and prevent the media from visiting it. What Israel and the Western countries supporting it fear is promoting the idea of the return of the Jews to their first homeland in this republic and persuading the world of a safe return for the Jews residing in Palestine to the Republic of Birobidzhan, to live in safety...Read More |
The death toll from Gaza continues to rise, and most of the people dying are terrorists. Today, Islamic Jihad announced the death of Ahmed Kamel Abdel Karim Ammar. They won't identify his position in the movement but his age (33) and the prominence of the announcement in Islamic Jihad media indicates that he was a major figure. Fatah terrorist Mu`in Jamal Al-Amsi died on Sunday from his wounds. Fatah isn't as sensitive about saying the jobs of those who were "martyred," and al-Amsi was a member of the Nidal Brigades Military Council and commander of their Engineering and Manufacturing Unit.
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