| Jewish woman visits UAE mosque. Arab media says she "desecrated" it.noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 14 Jun 09:00 AM Are Jews allowed to visit mosques | | Are Jews allowed to visit mosques under sharia law? Sura IX, Repentence, verse 17-18 states: "It is not for the idolaters to tend Allah's sanctuaries... He only shall tend Allah's sanctuaries who believes in Allah and the last day and observes proper worship,
pays the poor-due and fears none save Allah"; verse 28: "O ye who believe! The idolaters only are unclean. So let them not come near the inviolable Place of worship." Since Jews (and Christians) are dhimmis, not idolators, these verses do not apply to them, and they should be allowed to visit mosques. In the early days of Islam, they could. Under the Ottoman empire, though, additional restrictions were placed on Jews and Christians, and they were not allowed to visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs or the Temple Mount. These are not based on Islamic law. Last week, a Saudi journalist tweeted this: Vanesa, a Jewish Israeli lady expresses how welcome she feels inside Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque This is what my great religion Islam promotes, and these are the values of the UAE ♥️ pic.twitter.com/guISS9HWGz — Loay Alshareef لؤي الشريف (@lalshareef) June 13, 2021 Loay Alshareef was already considered very bad in some Arab circles for having participated in a Chanukah ceremony last year. Here, the Egyptian-born, Bahraini citizen is taking a Jewish Israeli woman on a tour of the Sheikh Zayed Grand...Read More |
Evyatar is a new outpost that some Israelis have set up recently with caravans, in response to the murder of Yehuda Guetta in early May. It was originally created in memory of Evyatar Borowski who was murdered at that location by Arab terrorists in 1982, but Israel has not allowed building there since it was first attempted to be built in 2013.
Israel has not legalized this settlement, and it has banned bringing building materials into the area, but there is pressure to allow it to be built. Israel is studying whether the area of Evyatar should be considered state land which would be a first step on legalization.
Palestinians are keenly watching what happens with Evyatar, which they call Jabal Sabih. There have been major riots over the outpost and one Palestinian teen was killed on Friday during one riot.
On Sunday night, Ma'an reports that Palestinians set fires in areas near the outpost, burning tires and setting off fireworks, and in fact they have been doing this every night. In an apparent move to force new Prime Minister Bennett into a difficult situation, Bibi Netanyahu instructed defense minister Benny Gantz not to demolish the outpost...Read More |
The Washington Post has an article about the damage done to Gaza by Israeli airstrikes, based on satellite imagery of before and after the mini-war in May.
According to the UN, 459 buildings were destroyed or damaged. Forty impact craters were detected on roads.
The destruction, which can be seen across the entire 25-mile strip was concentrated in the north, around Gaza City, and the southeast. Rights groups decried the targeting of Gaza, which is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Tensions boiled over in May after Hamas fired rockets into Israel in response to Israeli police cracking down on Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem. Israel responded with airstrikes, setting off nearly two weeks of hostilities. You see? Hamas rocket fire didn't set off two weeks of hostilities - Israel's response is what started the war! We saw the same dynamic in 2008: Hamas announced the name of the war and shot hundreds of rockets at Israel, but only when Israel responded was when the media declared that Israel started a war. That isn't the worst part of this article, though. The article goes in detail on the damage caused, almost all of it by Israel, but not once does it describe why Israel might have performed over a thousand airstrikes. It does not describe what Israel's targets might be, with...Read More |
Chaim Herzog, the former Israeli representative at the UN and father of the just elected president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, sent this letter in 1976 to then UN-Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, to counter an Arab submission that denied any Jewish connection to Hebron. (h/t Irene) * * * * * *
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From Ian: Richard Landes: Lethal, own-goal war journalism The month of May 2021 taught us Israelis many unfortunate things—things we hoped were not true (and continue to hope are not true)—about the sad straights of Israeli democracy; the relentlessly authoritarian nature of Palestinian or, for that matter, Arab and Muslim political culture; the troubled relationship between Jews and Arabs in Israel; the rising strength of religious hatred in the region and the world; and, at least for me, the most senseless yet persistent phenomenon that crops up every time open conflict between Israelis and Arabs breaks out: namely the own-goal, lethal war journalism of the Western media and the wave of hatred it predictably unleashes around the world. A brief preliminary discussion about the three types of unethical forms of "war journalism" is in order. There is patriotic war journalism: reporting as news your own side's war propaganda; lethal war journalism: reporting as news a foreign belligerent's war propaganda; and own-goal war journalism: reporting your enemy's war propaganda as news. Modern, professional journalism considers patriotic war journalism unethical, a prostitution of its high calling. While reporters sometimes sympathize with one "side" in a foreign war, lethal war journalists systematically give credence to one belligerent's narratives, depicting the other side as an atrocious enemy. The third...Read More |
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Hate is hate.Except when that hate targets Jews.Then it's legitimate complaint. Like when you try to burn down a synagogue because you're angry at Israel. And don't you dare call it antisemitism!
We saw that a few years ago when a German court affirmed a ruling that synagogue arson is not anti-Semitic. The case was about 3 men "of Palestinian descent" in July 2014. After the end-of-Ramadan celebration, they threw Molotov cocktails at a synagogue, resulting in minimal damage and no injuries.
The 3 men testified they were high on marijuana -- apparently they were just a little ahead of their time. But as it turned out, they did not have to claim diminished capacity. The court ruled there was no antisemitic motive because the men claimed they were taking out their anger on Israel because of the war with Gaza and didn't intend to hurt anyone.
Considering what has been going on in Jewish communities these past weeks, maybe these men were a little ahead of their time with this excuse as well.
Now, last month, Jewish houses of worship were again targets for vandals who ostensibly are reacting to events in the Middle East. On May 12, it was reported that Israeli flags were...Read More |
Last week, Youssef Munayyer wrote a piece in Jewish Currents claiming that the Palestinian expression "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is not at all antisemitic, and not a call fo rethnic cleansing of Jews, and is only a yearning for a state where Jews are treated equally with Arabs. It is, as he quotes, "part of a larger call to see a secular democratic state established in all of historic Palestine."
This is gaslighting on a massive scale.
Saddam Hussein was explicit when he said, "Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave."
Shiite scholar M. Da'ud wrote about the Muslim messianic Mahdi: Google Books references to the phrase before 1990 are mostly snippets, but they are very clear that the phrase means ethnic cleansing of Jews.
From Record of the Arab World: Yearbook of Arab and Israeli Politics (1970):
From a 1970 Egyptian radio broadcast, captured by the CIA: Or from the...Read More |
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