| Morocco looking forward to Israeli tourist boomnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Jul 04:45 AM Morocco's Hespress reports that tourism professionals | | Morocco's Hespress reports that tourism professionals are expecting to see some 50,000 Israelis visit that country before the end of the year.
Morocco's tourism industry was hurt badly by COVID-19 and they are hoping that the Jewish visitors will give it a shot in the arm (so to speak.)
The first commercial flight from Israel arrived in Morocco this week. Zubair Bouhout, a Moroccan tourism expert, said that Morocco was gearing up to provide kosher food for the Israeli tourists. They are creating itineraries that will highlight sites of Jewish interest, like shrines and Jewish neighborhoods. "In general, Israeli tourists have already begun to revive the demand for the destinations of Marrakech and Essaouira in increasing numbers," he said. Of the 50,000 visitors from Israel expected this year, he thinks 38,000 will fly on Israeli airlines and 12,000 on Royal Air Maroc. Next year, officials hope to see the number of Israelis visiting to increase to 200,000. * * * * * *
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From Ian: Criticism of Israel is not Antisemitic. But 'Anti-Zionism' is. This is why Russell Shalev argues that human rights movements cannot adequately address anti-Jewish discrimination, harassment or violence without recognising the mutual connection between Judaism and Zionism, and therefore between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Judaism, he points out, is at once a religion and a nation. Since the inception of the Jewish people, Zion, the Land of Israel, and a national covenant have formed a central role in Jewish self-understanding. The modern Zionist movement is merely a reformulation of the ancient Jewish yearning for national renewal in its ancient homeland. Beginning in the Emancipation, Jewish equality was often conditional on the renunciation of these national ties. Contemporary anti-Zionism is an ideological heir to this antisemitic pressure. Anti-Zionist antisemitism demonises Jewish national identity, marginalises Jews, and legitimizes exclusion, hate and even violence against Jews regardless of their political affiliation, and sometimes even regardless of their personal connection or support for Zionism or the State of Israel. I once called Zionism an infinite ideal, and I truly believe that even after we achieve our land, the land of Israel, it will not cease to be an ideal. Zionism, as I see it, entails not only an aspiration for a piece of land...Read More |
Today, Palestinian police closed the offices of "J-Media" in Ramallah. The Palestinian Authority says that this was because the outlet was not licensed appropriately, but the director of the news site was arrested a few weeks ago and one of its reporters had their mobile phone confiscated during the riots in response to the death of Nizar Banat.
Media freedom, Palestinian style.
Meanwhile, in Hebron, a man named Basil Fakhri Al-Jabari, was shot and killed. Nothing to do with Israel.
People got very upset and started rioting, burning down several stores, torching cars and shooting guns.
Hey, they are under occupation, of course they need to blow off some steam once in a while! * * * * * *
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One emerging meme from the Ben and Jerry's decision is that Israel's reaction proves that Israelis don't distinguish between both sides of the Green Line (also, that there is some link to the NSO spyware.)
A (VERY biased) NYT op-ed: The uniformity of official reaction in Israel to the Ben & Jerry's decision reflects an Israeli political consensus — unlike that of the international community — that does not distinguish between Israeli territory within its internationally recognized 1948 borders and the territories it occupied in 1967. A similarly biased Washington Post column: The whole episode reveals a fundamental tension in Israel's posture about its role in the Palestinian territories. On one hand, Israeli officials vehemently reject the charge that their government is perpetuating the crime of apartheid in the West Bank and East Jerusalem — where Palestinians are subordinate to Israeli security imperatives and denied the same political rights as their neighbors — by drawing a line between Israeli policies in the occupied territories and in Israel proper. Palestinians there are under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, a weak and unpopular institution that the Israelis claim is accountable for Palestinian grievances. Yet when Ben & Jerry...Read More |
From Ian: NGO Monitor: See No Evil: NGOs Turn Terrorists into Civilians in 2021 Gaza Conflict A major element of NGO propaganda consists of accusing Israel of targeting and killing civilians in Gaza. NGO Monitor has examined the use of this subterfuge during the May 2021 Gaza conflict, as well as in previous confrontations. One method used by NGOs to inflate civilian casualty numbers, accompanied by allegations of "war crimes," is to obscure or omit essential details about specific incidents – thereby erasing the role of terrorist groups. NGOs falsely classify Palestinian terrorists as civilians and ignore evidence that implicates terror groups in the deaths of Gazan civilians. NGO Monitor research has identified 50 incidents in which Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives killed in Gaza were falsely labeled by NGOs as civilian casualties, or in which civilians killed by Hamas were implicitly attributed to Israel. (Approximately 15 percent of the 4,300 missiles fired towards Israel fell short and impacted in Gaza.) In failing to report accurately, Palestinian NGOs amplify the demonization strategy, ignore the commission of war crimes by Palestinians, and distort the reality of Israeli efforts to limit civilian casualties during the fighting. These manipulated NGO accounts also serve as the basis of inflammatory media projects, such as the infamous New York Times front page story with...Read More |
I just took apart Human Rights Watch's absurd report on the May Gaza war, but I wanted to step back a little and describe biased, unfounded and ridiculous assumptions that HRW makes in order to reach its conclusions. 1. Gaza eyewitnesses are reliable. - Even when they say things like "I saw a high speed Israeli missile coming gradually from a great distance and explode one meter above the ground but I didn't run away." - Even when they would be arrested if they say anything that Hamas doesn't want them to say, like we saw armed militants come into our building all the time. 2. HRW researchers in Gaza are objective. - Even when they would be arrested if they say anything that Hamas doesn't want them to say.
3. Israeli statements are unreliable. -
Even though they have much more to lose by being proven wrong than anyone else.
4. Israel drops one ton bombs on residential areas without any military reason or targets that HRW "experts" can find.
5. Israel flattens buildings with people inside without warning for no reason - and possibly just because they want to kill civilians out of pure malice and criminal intent. - The fact that half of those killed in an urban war were militants - a record unmatched in the history of warfare - is utterly irrelevant to HRW. 6. Israel always starts...Read More |
Human Rights Watch continues its obsession with Israel in its latest report accusing Israel of "apparent" war crimes in Gaza. The report is based on incomplete information and assumptions that the IDF just targets innocent families for no reason.
It looks in detail at three incidents, and ignores any information that contradicts its assumptions that Israel is of course targeting civilians.
The first incident is the bombing near the Al Masry house in Beit Hanoun: Shortly after 6 p.m. on May 10, a guided missile struck near the town of Beit Hanoun and killed 8 people, including 6 children, all apparently civilians, and reportedly injured 18. The missile exploded about a meter above the ground, 10 meters from the closest of four houses built next to each other and owned by four brothers of the al-Masri family – Arafat, Ibrahim, Mohammed Attallah, and Youssef – who lived there with their families. The houses are located about a kilometer to the east of Beit Hanoun in the northeastern corner of Gaza.How does HRW know it is a "guided" missile and not a Hamas rocket? Initial reports on May 10 said it was very possible it was a Gaza rocket that fell short, and even Palestinian human rights groups admit that there were lots of Gaza rockets being shot at the time.
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