| Jordanian anti-Israel "turn off lights" demonstration seems to have fallen flatnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 06 Jun 04:45 AM Jordanian activists ha | | Jordanian activists have been pushing a nationwide effort to have Jordanians turn off their electricity from 10-11 PM Saturday night in protest of Jordan buying natural gas from Israel. Roya News tried to get dramatic footage of the great electricity turn-off - and it doesn't look like very many Jordanians listened. Jordan imports nearly all of its fuel for energy, and stopping Israeli natural gas would have big repercussions. * * * * * *
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From Ian: Six Day War: When Israel reclaimed Jerusalem, its eternal capital It was Begin who set in motion the final act. He had been overruled in the cabinet the night before when he called for an immediate attack on the Old City. Waking from a troubled sleep, he tuned into the BBC. The lead news item was about a Middle East ceasefire that the Security Council was planning to call this day. Begin telephoned Dayan and said "we can't wait anymore." Dayan agreed. At 5:30 a.m. Narkiss was contacted by Dayan's deputy, Gen. Haim Bar-Lev. The paratroopers were to attack the Old City as soon as possible. The cabinet had not yet approved, he said, but there was no doubt that it would in a telephone poll. Any lingering ambiguity had been cast aside by the fast-moving developments. The departure of Haza'a's force spared the paratroopers who broke through Lion's Gate at 10 a.m. a bloody fight. (Two Israelis would be killed inside the walls in skirmishes with a scattering of Jordanian soldiers who had remained behind.) When Dayan arrived on the Temple Mount he ordered that an Israeli flag raised by soldiers on the Dome of the Rock be taken down. He would shortly order de facto control of the Temple Mount returned to the Muslim religious authorities. At the Western Wall, Dayan read a statement to the press: "We have returned to the holiest of our sites and...Read More |
From Ian: Bobby Kennedy's Admiration for Israel In the months between his graduation from Harvard in the spring of 1948 and his enrollment in the University of Virginia Law School in the fall of that year, Bobby Kennedy embarked on an overseas trip at the urging of his father. Through the elder Kennedy's Boston connections, the 22-year-old aspiring attorney landed a reporting job with the Boston Post. There, Kennedy convinced his editors to let him report from the Middle East on the Arab-Israeli war. Kennedy arrived in early April and spent a few weeks in war-torn Palestine. From there, he wrote four very vivid and wide-ranging articles. He left Palestine before Ben-Gurion's May 14th declaration of Israeli statehood and returned through Europe to the United States. In early June, after Israel was established and diplomatically recognized by the major powers, the articles were published in a series under the byline "Robert Kennedy, Special Writer for the Post." In the first article, under the headline "British Hatred by Both Sides," RFK labored mightily to present the arguments of both Arabs and Jews. "There are such well-founded arguments on either side," Kennedy wrote, "that each side grows more and more bitter toward the other. Confidence in their right increases in proportion to the hatred and mistrust for the other side not acknowledging it." In the subsequent three articles, however, RFK and his...Read More |
One hundred years ago The Hebrew Standard of June 3, 1921 published in its weekly British Jewish news column the details of the various Jewish political parties in Palestine. They were as diverse as the ones in Israel today. * * * * * *
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I just saw a 58 page paper published by Oxfam last year about what the PA and Hamas (barely mentioned) could do to reduce poverty,
Buried deep within this document is a very mild criticism of Hamas quoting an unnamed development expert in Gaza:
The policies of the de facto authorities in Gaza are not conducive to economic growth and development. Their export and import policies, as well as discriminatory policies in terms of distribution of land, subsidies, external funding and investment opportunities, are all leading to the demise of small businesses, small farmers and fishers. In contrast, there is no room for advocacy with the government given the limitations placed on civil society or to influence positive change on behalf of those who are victims of these policies.This is an exceedingly polite way to say that Hamas gives out favors to its members and friends and doesn't give a damn about actual people under its control, who have no recourse - they cannot vote Hamas out, they cannot protest without being arrested.
Elsewhere in this report, Oxfam mentions that Hamas employees are incompetent, possibly because the jobs are given out as favors: "[N]ew staff of the de facto authorities in Gaza have very limited
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From Ian: Judea Pearl: How Did Hamas Become the Darling of the West? And this brings me to 2021 and to the latest war in Gaza. To the New York Times front page depicting the victims of Israel's defense operation, as if they had never heard the word "Hamas" or read Hamas's charter. To CNN's anchor Fareed Zakaria asserting that Israel is a military superpower, hence Hamas does not pose an existential threat to it. To NYT analyst Nicholas Kristof asserting (in an interview with Bill Maher) that Israel, too, positions its military headquarters among civilians. To UCLA Department of Asian American Studies stating (on its official University website) its "Solidarity with Palestine" and its authoritative understanding that such "violence and intimidation are but the latest manifestation of seventy-three years of settler colonialism, racial apartheid, and occupation." To the Statement of scholars of Jewish Studies and Israel Studies from various universities who, in the Forward,condemned "the state violence that the Israeli government and its security forces have been carrying out in Gaza." To members of If Not Now, saying Kaddish for fallen Hamas fighters (among other victims). And, finally, to the mob roaming the streets of Los Angeles and shouting, "Honk, Honk, From the River to the Sea." Looking back on the past 12 years, there is no question that Hamas has gained a major uplift...Read More |
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The headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer says, "A teacher at a Main Line Jewish school criticized Zionism on Twitter. Then he got fired."
That is an inaccurate and irresponsible headline, which is being abused by anti-Zionists who are having a field day claiming this is Zionist cancel culture.
The school, the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, is unapologetically Zionist. The tweets by teacher Jesse Schwartz were bragging that he was going to violate school policy by secretly teaching students to hate Israel.
The three tweets at issue are:
"young jews are worth saving from the morally and intellectually corroding clutches of zionism! idk how to do this but i'm gonna try to do it lol"
"i sort of do the opposite of what the CIA does in the sense that i am infiltrating a right wing institution instead of a left wing institution and also instead of successfully sabotaging and disappearing activists i am just going to like, get fired after maybe changing 1 kid's mind"
"i'm also gonna try to make [the students] socialists and \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* the faculty"
These tweets aren't anti-Zionist - they are a threat that a teacher plans to clandestinely undermine school standards. The fact that he doesn't use his real name or the name of the school is irrelevant - any employer would fire any employee who threatens to secretly sow discord in the workplace.
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On May 20 - after Israel endured thousands of rockets - the Schenectady High School sent out an email to all teachers instructing them to be anti-Zionist.
The entire letter has not been published, but local media quoted enough of it to show how insanely biased it was.
"As we continue in our anti-racism journey, it is important to bring attention to the injustices that have escalated against Palestinians in recent weeks," wrote the school's "culturally-responsive committee," which is supposed to advance the school's anti-racism and equity goals.
The letter gave a list of words for teachers to use, and not to use, when referring to the Israel/Palestinian conflict - one of the words not to use.
The "words to use" list included: apartheid, colonialism, ethnic cleansing, boycott Israel, and anti-Zionism. "Words not to use" included: 'clash, war, both sides and conflict."
When the backlash started, the committee that sent out the letter didn't apologize for its anti-Israel viewpoint. Instead, it said it wasn't antisemitic.
"The CRC's critique of state-sanctioned violence is never intended to give either implicit or explicit condemnation of a religion," the committee wrote in its follow-up message. "Any antisemitic ideologies should be given no quarter in our community or in our committee. We are deeply sorry for the harm that we caused by not making...Read More |
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