| Vaccine debacle: Palestinian leaders and "human rights" NGOs hate Israel more than they value the lives of Palestiniansnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), | | The Pfizer vaccine fiasco reveals so much about the Palestinian leadership as well as about the "human rights" groups and activists who pretend to be "pro-Palestinian" but truly aren't.
The Palestinian Authority had agreed with Israel to obtain over 1 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine now, and not to have to wait until September to get them directly from Pfizer. The agreement was signed and the PA knew perfectly well that Israel would first transfer the vaccines that were closest to expiring, and the exact expiration dates of the first doses.
As the NYT reports: An Israeli official, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said that the initial batch of doses would expire at the start of July and said that would give enough time for Palestinian health workers to administer them. The official added that the authority had been aware of the vaccines' expiry date before agreeing to their delivery, and said the authority had scrapped the deal only because it had been criticized by Palestinians for agreeing to receive vaccines perceived to be of poor quality. The official also said that none of the remaining doses would have been delivered less than two weeks before their expiry date. Tens of thousands of Palestinians could have received their first doses in the next two weeks. This should be considered a debacle by any civilized society...Read More |
From DW: All parties in Germany's grand coalition government have agreed to ban the flag of Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper said in a report published Sunday. The move comes after several antisemitic incidents occurred last month in Germany during anti-Israel rallies. "We do not want the flags of terrorist organizations to be waved on German soil," said Thorsten Frei, the deputy parliamentary spokesperson for [Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.] and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union. The center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the CDU's coalition partner, raised constitutional concerns about the proposal but later backed the initiative. "I'm very pleased that the SPD has joined our initiative. In doing so, we can send a clear signal to our Jewish citizens," Frei added, according to the Welt am Sonntag. Synagogues were attacked, Israeli flags were burned and antisemitic slurs were used in cities across Germany in May amid demonstrations against Israel's 11-day war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The German government had previously banned Hezbollah flags. * * * * * *
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From Ian: Is There a Future for Young Jewish Families in Los Angeles? Since I'm more involved in the Jewish community rather than the artist community these days, I worry about the Jewish future of Los Angeles. When I go to synagogue, I notice there are more baby boomers and gen Xers than millennials and gen Zers. Baby boomers tell me how concerned they are about my generation since it's so unaffordable here. I am too. Sadly, I don't believe that the Jewish community has much of a future here with the way things are going. Aside from the fact that we can't purchase property here and start building generational wealth for our children, it doesn't seem like the non-Jews like us very much. It's not only frightening that Jews are randomly getting attacked on the streets and synagogues are being vandalized, but also that antisemitism is now being institutionalized. Just look at how the LA teachers' union is supporting anti-Israel boycotts. It's peculiar how they don't boycott China for interning Uyghurs in camps or Iran for killing gay men. Somehow, everyone and their mother have an opinion on Israel. But that's beside the point. The nonsense in LA and California in general is at an all-time high. On a typical Shabbat, my husband, daughter and I have to walk through homeless encampments that smell like marijuana and human feces to get to shul. The homeless...Read More |
From Ian: Christine Rosen: How the Media Ignore Jew-Haters In the wake of George Floyd's killing in 2020, Google issued a lengthy statement outlining its commitments to racial equity in hiring and promotion as well as the money and support it had promised to the Black Lives Matter movement. Yet Google has said nothing about the recent spike in anti-Semitic violence, including brutal beatings of Jews on the streets of American cities, despite the fact that Jews are the targets of hate crimes in the U.S. far more frequently than other racial or religious groups. Part of that has to do with the fact that Google's workforce is progressive, particularly on matters related to Israel: According to The Verge, some members of the Jewish group at Google to whom Bobb privately apologized claim that the group itself "was not a safe space to express anti-Zionist beliefs," and they formed their own anti-Israel splinter group. That group demanded that Pichai make a public statement condemning Israel's response to the recent Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel that would include "direct recognition of the harm done to Palestinians by Israeli military and gang violence." Not surprisingly, no pressure was placed on Pichai to condemn Hamas's terrorism, which directly targeted Israeli civilians. The letter further demanded funding for Palestinian causes and "termination of contracts with institutions...Read More |
I had just about enough of seeing anti-Israel people downplay the danger of Gaza rockets or incendiary devices. Also: * * * * * *
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From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Palestinianism opening up new Nazi front against Jews Furthermore, both the Palestinian cause and Palestinian "identity" itself are based on the attempted theft and appropriation of the historic homeland and history of the Jews— the indigenous people of the land of Israel. So it's not just that the demonisation and delegitimisation of Israel are fundamentally anti-Jew. What's not properly understood is that Palestinianism is antisemitism. Western liberals who support the Palestinian cause are supporting a profoundly anti-Jewish agenda, not only to steal the land of the Jewish people but to wipe out their history and thus their identity. Far more ominously, this is also the passionately held default narrative for millions of Muslims who have settled in Britain and other western countries. As they become more assimilated, and their children enter the professions and political life — in itself a welcome development in terms of social acceptance — they are unfortunately seeding this poisonous narrative throughout British society. A lethal obsession once confined to the far left is now gaining enormous cultural traction through the number of British Muslims developing public influence (with the sterling exception of those few British Muslims who take a brave and principled public stand against Jew-hatred). But anyone who dares point...Read More |
Here are photos from the Hamas Al Qassam Brigades terrorist website showing children as young as nine years old queuing up to sign up for terror camp to be recruited into Hamas. According to Hamas:
These camps aim to ignite the flame of jihad in the generation of liberation, sow Islamic values and prepare the expected victory army for the liberation of Palestine, God willing. Notice how Hamas uses a submachine gun as a prop to attract recruits. * * * * * *
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The New York Times reviews the incident that killed the most civilians in the May fighting, the collapse of the Abul Ouf Building where 22 innocent Palestinians died. Already the subhead shows the bias:
As the article shows, Israel didn't bomb the apartment building - if that was the target, the IDF would have issued a warning. In an interview, an Israeli military spokesman, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, said that on the morning of May 16, several Israeli aircraft fired 11 missiles along a 200-yard stretch of Al Wahda Street, aiming to destroy a tunnel and command center beneath it. Drone video filmed soon afterward by the Israeli military showed a row of craters left in the road by GPS-guided bombs. But while most of the adjacent buildings remained standing, the Abul Ouf Building collapsed in what the official described as "a freak event." The military had not known the exact location of the command center, nor how far it extended under nearby buildings, Colonel Conricus said. When the bombs exploded deep underground, they unexpectedly dislodged the Abul Ouf Building's foundations, he added. The Independent, which reported about this on May 24, confirmed this: When questioned about the purpose of the attack, the...Read More |
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