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Prominent female Bahraini journalist being harassed for supporting normalization with Israelnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 15 Jun 04:45 AM Professor Like   Tweet   Prominent female Bahraini journalist being harassed for supporting normalization with Israel noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 15 Jun 04:45 AM Professor Ahdia Ahmed Al-Sayed is the first woman to chair the Bahraini Journalists Association. Speaking to the American Jewish Press Association, she said that the Bahraini community did not accept her and many of her fellow journalists because of their explicit support for Israel's normalization agreement. "Yes, I was bullied and harassed on social media," she said. Al-Sayed strongly implied that she was threatened, saying that her attackers went beyond "what can be said about women" in Bahrain. Earlier, during an interview with Israeli radio, she stated that "the Palestinians have not offered themselves anything for seventy-two years, yet the normalization agreement with Israel does not contradict Palestinian interests." Al-Sayed plans to lead the first delegation of journalists from Bahrain to Israel this year. * * * * * * ...Read More 06/14 Links Pt2: Dore Gold: The Baseless Charge that Israel Is an Apartheid State, Again; Why 'the Jews'?; Ilhan Omar is a wakeup call for American Jews noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 14 Jun 05:00 PM From Ian: Dore Gold: The Baseless Charge that Israel Is an Apartheid State, Again The baseless accusations that Israel has adopted an apartheid system similar to South Africa's pre-1994 racial doctrine just won't go away. Former South African Supreme Court Justice Richard J. Goldstone, chief prosecutor of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, wrote in the New York Times on October 31, 2011, that descriptions of Israel as an apartheid state are "unfair and inaccurate slander." "In Israel there is no apartheid. Nothing there comes close to the definition of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute." Goldstone headed a UN fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict in 2008-9, which tried to argue that Israel had deliberately killed civilians in that war. Goldstone eventually retracted the principal conclusions of his own report. The details here matter. In apartheid South Africa, there were white hospitals and black hospitals. Yet anyone today who wanders into the Emergency Room at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem will find both Jewish and Palestinian Arab patients treated by both Jewish and Palestinian doctors working side-by-side. Charging Israel with apartheid is not only unfair, it is completely inaccurate. So why do writers persist to argue that Israel is an apartheid state? Because Israel's adversaries are waging an ideological war against...Read More Recent memes and comix noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 14 Jun 03:00 PM * * * * * * ...Read More Kerem Shalom is still partially closed, I'm not sure why noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 14 Jun 01:00 PM The Kerem Shalom crossing, which is the main crossing for goods to and from Gaza, has not yet fully re-opened since the May mini-war. This is a little surprising, because that re-opening is always one of the major pre-requisites for the cease fire. Merchants and manufacturers in Gaza say that the goods they have ordered are stuck in the Ashkelon port, and they cannot get them transported to Gaza. (They are also charged for storage at the port.) The Gisha NGO says that only food, animal feed, humanitarian aid, medication, and fuel for international organizations are allowed into Gaza - not even fuel for the Gaza power plant. Nothing is being exported, either. Perhaps there is some sort of security concern, but I cannot imagine what it is. I know that the PA wants to be in the loop on allowing reconstruction materials into Gaza so there may be some political infighting between them and Hamas in allowing imports to resume - they have argued over tax collection from imports in the past. Not re-opening...Read More 06/14 Links Pt1: We must recognize Netanyahu's achievements despite his flaws; Senior Fatah official supports Hamas rockets "that put Israel in bomb shelters" noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 14 Jun 11:00 AM From Ian: David Horovitz: Israel awakens to its most representative government ever, courtesy of Netanyahu Israel awoke Monday to a new, post-Netanyahu dawn — to a fragile and phenomenally diverse coalition whose members chorused their determination to work for the good of the country. The sun rose as usual, just as Naftali Bennett had promised last week that it would, except he was now prime minister. "King Bibi," it turned out, was not a monarch after all. As they assembled for the traditional photograph with the president, there was no mistaking the breadth of Israel represented by the ministers in the government headed by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid. On one side of President Reuven Rivlin sat Bennett, Israel's first Orthodox prime minister and the former head of the Settlers Council. On the other sat Lapid, the secular centrist who drew together the radically improbable eight-party mix that on Sunday unseated Benjamin Netanyahu after 12 years. Among those arrayed behind them stood an Ethiopia-born minister (Pnina Tamano Shata), a former IDF chief of staff (Benny Gantz), Israel's first openly gay party leader (Nitzan Horowitz), a minister from the Arab community (Issawi Frej), other ex-army officers, and immigrants from the former Soviet Union. In her wheelchair to Lapid's left was Karine Elharrar (she has...Read More    ©2021 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company