| Deputy head of Fatah warns critics not to "provoke" them - because they value unitynoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 11 Jul 04:45 AM Mahmoud al-Aloul, | |  |
Mahmoud al-Aloul, deputy head of Fatah, threatened anyone who opposes the movement in the wake of the criticism that resulted from the killing of PA critic Nizar Banat.
In a speech given in Ramallah, Aloul said, "Do not provoke the Fatah movement, as it will not have mercy on anyone."
Al-Aloul told critics to "stop these polemics."
He added, "This movement supports the national unity of all Palestinians, and calls on everyone to protect the struggle."
The message is that any infighting takes away from the battle against Israel, and ends up strengthening the Zionist enemy.
Al-Aloul said that opposing Israel is the main challenge for Palestinians, and they could not afford any internal dissent which he called "secondary conflict."
"O others, who are taking us towards a secondary conflict, where are you going? Is this not in the interest of the occupation? We are fighting a battle against the occupation, isn't this a relief to the occupation? We tell you that we are in Fatah support unity, pluralism with other opinions, but we have the ability to distinguish [between legitimate opinions and opposition to Fatah.] And who makes the decision of what kinds of criticism is legitimate and which kind results in beatings and imprisonment? Why, it is people like Al-Aloul! * * * * * *
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From Ian: The Left Only Cares About Palestinians When It Can Blame Israel Israel is not beyond criticism. But this unhealthy obsession with an imagined Israel is not really about the conflict. It's about a rather successful propaganda campaign by Palestinian leaders, their allies and multilateral institutions around the world. It's about an ideological shift on the political left in the West, in which race and other demographic categories have replaced class as the crucial axis. And it has catastrophic consequences for Jews around the world who have become legitimate targets. They are the victims of what can only be called an anti-Zionist obsession, which demands total rejection of Israel of every Jew, lest they been seen as complicit in the "evil endeavors" of Israel. This "Zio-centric" approach is one reason why the British Labour Party under former leader Jeremy Corbyn had become riddled with antisemitism, why we have seen this "new form" of antisemitism in Europe over the past twenty years, and why we recently saw antisemitic attacks in the streets of London, New York and Los Angeles. But it also has terrible consequences for Palestinians, whose supporters are choosing to ignore the terrorism and tyranny that have wrecked Palestinian politics and have provided cover for a political structure in Palestine that they would never accept for themselves. Jonathan...Read More |
From Ian: No safe haven for Diaspora Jews but Israel The phenomenon of antisemitism is revealed in the world as a natural response designed to remind the people of Israel why it exists in the world. Our only option and shield for defending ourselves against hatred is the implementation of our role as "light unto the nations." Therefore, the solidarity we feel with the Jews of Belgium should not be expressed by rushing to invest our money in safeguarding their institutions – a move that would be futile – but by explaining, both to ourselves and to them, the cause of the animosity against Jews, and what we must do to fix the problem for the world and ourselves. If we do not start moving towards carrying out our role, we will find ourselves with no place to hide. As it is written, "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees and the stones and trees will say, 'O Muslim, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him." (First extract, The Victory of Muslims Over Jews, Hadiths) Our Jewish sources say that eventually all the Jews, including the Ten Tribes we lost along the way, will return to the Land of Israel to unite. Although there seems to be no place to absorb them all, there is plenty of room. The Book of Daniel calls the Land of Israel the "land of the deer." As the Talmud explains, "Just as the...Read More |
Today, some 35,000 Muslims came for Friday prayers to the Al Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding courtyards of the Temple Mount. This is pretty typical.
I think it is highly probable that when the Temple Mount was under Ottoman, British and Jordanian rule, the number of worshipers never or very rarely exceeded that number, even during major Muslim holidays.
When Israel recaptured Jerusalem in 1967, there were only 54,000 Muslims in the city - including the areas of Jerusalem that Israel expanded. In 1944, only 30,000 Muslims lived there - men, women and children.
While it is possible that on holidays there were tens of thousands who came from surrounding areas to visit, I still doubt that it reached 35,000. Accounts from newspapers in the first half of the 20th century would describe the crowds as being in the thousands, not tens or hundreds of thousands, for Muslim holidays, as in this April 1, 1934 NYT article. There is no doubt that during holidays nowadays, when the crowds can reach well over 100,000, there are more Muslims at the Temple Mount than at any time in history.
More Muslims have more opportunities to see their third holiest site under Jewish rule than they ever did under Muslim or British rule. * * * * * *
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From Ian: Palestinian Conflict Won't Change Arab-Israel Normalization Normalization is here to stay, and Israel is no longer the enemy in many strategic circles across the wider Middle East. Predictions of the Abraham Accords' demise were premature. Hamas and Iran, and a long list of right-wing parties, leftist nationalists, and populist leaders (like President Erdogan in Turkey and Prime Minister Imran Khan in Pakistan) find few buyers in the region for their anti-normalization pitch. Perceptions about Israel changed between 2011 and 2020 in regional national security circles. Israel's reputation in technology, its precision strikes in Syria, the role of its weaponry in the Nagorno-Karabakh war, and its alleged covert actions on Iran's nuclear program have had the combined effect of forcing some policy planners in the region to see a robust Israeli role in collaborative regional security. In interviews with two security officials in two countries neighboring Iran in January and May last year, they said that they indirectly rely on Israel to counter Iran's influence, which they believe they cannot do alone. Officials in the region will not say this openly, but journalists have heard variations of this view from government, military, and intelligence officials in background briefings within the past five years. But a word of caution: Israel should not stretch its...Read More |
Azerbaijani site Trend.az has an interview with George Deek, the Arab Christian ambassador of Israel to Azerbaijan, discussing areas of cooperation and historic ties between the nations. There are many Israeli companies in various fields that are ready to cooperate with Azerbaijan in the liberated territories, Ambassador of Israel to Azerbaijan George Deek told Trend. As he said, Israel has expressed its readiness for cooperation in the liberated territories of Azerbaijan in the field of agriculture, water resources management, and mine clearance. "So, these are the main fields, which I believe we can cooperate: de-mining, reconstruction, agriculture, water, but of course we also see the opportunities for cooperation and sharing the know-how in various fields, for example, it can be in healthcare," added the ambassador. In terms of overall cooperation between the countries' the ambassador noted that Israel and Azerbaijan can develop relations in the agriculture and water management sectors. "There's no reason why we can't work together with Azerbaijan to help bring up the agricultural sector in Azerbaijan, using Israeli technologies from greenhouses to drip irrigation, to different spices and grains and the fertilizers that we use and have developed," said the ambassador. He also noted that the same applies to the field of water management. In addition, he said Israel is capable of cooperating with Azerbaijan...Read More |
On Thursday, Hezbollah announced that it had provided Gaza terror groups with sensitive intelligence information during the May war.
This is the first time that Hezbollah ever made this claim.
Deputy head of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, told Al Mayadeen TV that Hezbollah had informed the Gaza groups that Israel's implying that it had started a ground offensive was a deception.
On May 28, the editor-in-chief of Hezbollah mouthpiece Al-Akhbar, Ibrahim Al-Amin, said during an interview with Al-Manar TV channel that Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and Hamas established a military operations room in Beirut during the war.
Al-Amin added that the commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Major General Ismail Qani, visited Lebanon twice to attend the meetings of the groups.
Al-Amin claimed that Hezbollah and the Iranians provided the Gaza groups with data on the movements of the IDF, which supposedly thwarted the ambush of terrorists near the Gaza border. Whether or not these specific...Read More |
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