| Palestinian police violently attack demonstrators, journalistsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Jun 04:45 AM On Saturday, Palestinians held demonstr | | On Saturday, Palestinians held demonstrations in Ramallah nd Hebron protesting the apparent murder of Nizar Banat by Palestinian police. The police, naturally, acted like they always do - by violently attacking the protesters.
Here is a photo and video of an attack on a female journalist: There were plainclothes police violently dragging people away. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa, and official newspaper Al Hayat al Jadida, are ignoring these protests. Fatah did issue a statement saying that "Our Palestinian security institutions will not be alone in the battle to defend our people, their rights and their cause, and we will confront all attempts to harm them and distort their image and exploit this incident to spread poison, and we will strike with an iron fist" anyone who insults the security services. * * * * * *
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From Ian: Israel sending IDF team to Florida to assist with tower collapse rescue efforts The Israel Defense Forces will send a search and rescue delegation to Florida to assist with rescue efforts following the Surfside residential building collapse that left at least four dead and nearly 160 still missing. The team of Home Front Command soldiers will head to Florida following a series of talks over the weekend between Israeli defense officials and officials in Miami, the Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday night. Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the move was approved in coordination with the Foreign Ministry. "As with any national mission, the IDF and the defense establishment are ready to respond, act and assist. Every effort will be made to save lives, support the Jewish community and our friend the United States," Gantz said. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the sending of the delegation demonstrated the depth of friendship between the two nations. "The State of Israel has no better friend than the United States, and the United States has no better friend than Israel. In such difficult moments, we stand with our American friends and the Jewish community in Florida," Lapid said, according to the statement. Golan Vach, a senior officer in the IDF's Homefront Command, will head the delegation, which will be comprised of around ten...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The delusional faith in reason of the liberal intellectual Surreally, the latest such candidate is radical Islam which is currently being accommodated, sanitised and genuflected to in western progressive circles. Evidence of the fanatical aggression perpetrated in its name is blanked out as if it isn't there. I personally encountered this phenomenon during the creation of the appalling 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which at best would merely delay the Iranian bomb while funnelling billions of dollars into the regime to fund its terrorist activities. One of that deal's most enthusiastic political architects told me that reports of the Iranian regime's repression of its people were baloney because he'd seen no sign of it on a recent visit to Tehran, where he'd been impressed by the politeness of the Iranian police. When I pointed out that in Iran dissidents were jailed, women violently oppressed and gay people hung from cranes, he simply waved all this away. When I observed that the regime was run by genocidal fanatics, he told me sternly that they were in fact highly rational individuals as evidenced by the way they negotiated. The idea that unhinged fanatics can also exercise strategic cunning was simply not on his radar. For intellectuals who live inside their own heads, belief in a rational utopia is as immovably set in stone as is the fanaticism of the Iranian...Read More |
This report was published by Safa. It rings true but there is no way to check it. Informed sources confirmed that a high-level security meeting was held in the office of President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah last night. The meeting was to discuss concerns about the internationalization of the issue of the assassination by the security services of his political opponent Nizar Banat in Hebron. The sources indicated that the meeting discussed "frightening scenarios" for the authority; The most prominent of these is the internationalization of the investigation into the assassination of Banat, especially if human rights organizations and his family use international statements criticizing his killing to pursue the case in European courts or with international human rights bodies, or pressure donor countries to restrict funding for the authority until its human rights record is improved. The meeting was "confused" during the discussion of the proposed scenarios and ways to deal with them, in light of messages sent by local and international bodies, especially European, to the authority calling for a transparent investigation and accountability for the...Read More |
From Ian: An excuse to attack the Jews and Israel During Operation Guardian of the Walls, Hamas "somehow managed to create a bizarre universe where lies are truths, fiction is fact, and the perpetrator is the victim," asserted Nitsana Darshan Leitner, founder of Shurat HaDin Israeli Law Center. Though Hamas is an internationally recognized terror organization, she noted that the Hamas leadership succeeded in obscuring their sponsorship of suicide bombings and the murder of thousands of civilians, including Americans, while persuading "the woke, the liars, the celebrity posers, and the haters that they are innocent victims who represent the interests" of all Palestinian Arabs. They have also prevailed in expunging their history of seizing control of the Gaza Strip in a coup in which they attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons and threw Fatah fighters off the roofs of hospitals. Pundits enlisted into the Palestinian Arab propaganda machine, she said, used words like They succeeded in spewing their vicious lies, but not in their usual virulent anti-Israel attacks. Instead, they focused on vilifying Jews "disproportionate use of force," "illegal, "ethnic cleansing," and apartheid nation," to redefine Israel's right to self-defense. This duplicity from a terrorist organization that recruits young men and women to become suicide bombers, was now being represented through social media as...Read More |
A Fatah member has obliquely addressed the PA's apparent killing of critic Nizar Banat yesterday amid mass arrests of other critics, which the PA and Fatah have been mostly silent about. Muwaffaq Matar, pictured, a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement, said on Facebook today that "treason, chaos and tampering with the system do not fall under freedom of opinion and expression." Matar added, "The president, the political system, and the security services are not corrupt... Those who have an agenda see who wrote their lines and their tools are known...Treason, chaos, and tampering with public order are neither expression nor opinion." Matar indicated that the results of the investigation into the killing of Nizar Banat have not yet been presented to the public, accusing Hamas and Abba rival Muhammad Dahlan, of exploiting a "case still under investigation" to cause chaos. In a series of Facebook posts, Matar questioned the reasons for "focusing on the president, the security services and the political system," he said. Maybe because Abbas is a corrupt dictator who controls all aspects of life under his rule and does not tolerate any dissent? * * * * * *
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Amnesty International just issued a report on Israel's arrests for the attacks between Arabs and Jews inside Israel during May. The report includes outright lies: Amnesty International has documented unnecessary and excessive force used by Israeli police to disperse Palestinian protests against forced evictions in East Jerusalem as well as against the Gaza offensive. The protests were mostly peaceful though a minority attacked police property and threw stones. In contrast, Jewish supremacists continue to organize demonstrations freely. On 15 June thousands of Jewish settlers and supremacists marched provocatively through Palestinian neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem. Those "mostly peaceful" Arab protests resulted in the deaths of two Jews, synagogues burned, apartments firebombed, people knifed.
The Flag March on June 15 was not "organized freely." Israeli police limited the route of the march specifically to avoid Arab neighborhoods. While some Jews may have deviated from the route, Amnesty is saying that Israeli police allowed the marchers to do whatever they wanted, which is a lie.
And look how Amnesty describes the Jews: "settlers" and "Jewish supremacists." Really? Every marcher either lives across the Green Line or considers Arabs to be less than human?
Most of the marchers were not extremists or bigots. Some were...Read More |
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