| The ancient Jewish pilgrimage site of Halhoul that Palestinians try to bar Jews from visitingnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 08 Jul 04:45 AM The pro- | | The pro-terror IMEMC News reported on Monday: Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, a mosque in Halhoul town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, to accompany colonialist settlers into the holy site, and injured six Palestinians, in addition to causing dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation. Media sources said several Israeli army jeeps invaded the town, at dawn, to accompany dozens of paramilitary colonialist settlers into Nabi Mousa Mosque to perform prayers, after forcing the Palestinians out. They added that the Palestinians protested the invasion and hurled stones at the army, while the soldiers fired many rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades. I was curious why Jews would want to visit Halhoul.
It turns out there are a lot of reasons.
Halhoul is mentioned in the Tanach - Joshua 15:58. It kept the same name all this time.
It has long been considered the burial place of Gad the Seer (2 Samuel 24:11) and Jews have made pilgrimages there for centuries. Rabbi Yitzchak Chelo, of Aragon, visited Palestine in 1333, and wrote about Halhoul in his book The Ways of Jerusalem (quoted here from the French by Victor Guerin):
From there [from Tekoa '] we go to Halhul, place mentioned in Joshua. There are a number of...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal How They Did It Between 1967 and 2021, the enemies of the Jewish state and the Jewish people created in effect an army of anti-Israel operatives in key positions in Western societies, including Israel herself. These operatives are often opinion leaders who influence the behavior of their countries. Here is how they did it. The Arab nations failed to defeat Israel in major military conflicts in 1948, 1967, and 1973. At that point, they turned to cognitive warfare, the manipulation of information, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings, in order to weaken their enemy and deny it support from third parties. Thus there were two primary targets: the population of the State of Israel, and the Western nations that might become sources of financial, logistical, diplomatic, or other forms of help for the Jewish state. The objective of cognitive warfare is to divide, disrupt, and isolate the enemy so that it be finished off more easily by military means. Terrorism is an important part of cognitive warfare, because frightened people are prone to Stockholm syndrome. But this discussion will be limited to the non-kinetic aspects of cognitive warfare. The cognitive war began around 1967, initiated by the Soviet KGB as a propaganda campaign. The terrorists of the PLO – whose actual ideology was close to that of Nazi Germany – were presented as a national liberation movement, which found approval in the leftist student and antiwar movements that were part of the...Read More |
From Ian: JCPA: The Media in the 2021 Gaza War: The New York Times' Journalistic Malpractice During the 2021 Gaza War, the New York Times published ten articles and features from Gaza written and photographed by local Gazan stringers, photographers, and "fixers." Since Gaza is controlled by Hamas, no one can report on or photograph Hamas rocket launchers located in civilian neighborhoods or the extensive and expensive Hamas tunnels with weaponry stored inside. A respected Arab reporter, who reported on Gaza for decades, explained, "They will report what Hamas wants them to write; photograph the pictures Hamas seeks. They cannot write or film anything that will hurt Hamas' image….I blame the news producers sitting in London or New York assigning stories when they know the fixers' restrictions." Thus, they have the main, direct responsibility for the misrepresentation of the war. On June 24, 2021, the New York Times released a 14-minute investigative video entitled "Gaza's Deadly Night." Any Gaza war narrative must deal with Hamas' underground tunnels – used to move weaponry and personnel – which were the target of Israel's precision bombing of the Wahda Street area in Gaza City. Yet the video only included a 10-second clip of armed men moving through a narrow tunnel, from a clip filmed by Reuters in 2014. On June 5, Qatar's Al Jazeera and Iran's Mehr News broadcast...Read More |
Screenshot, New York Times, "They Were Only Children"
Israel is the media's whipping boy: we've come to expect negative coverage on Israel. This is disheartening to those of us who love Israel and/or hate media bias. We feel hopeful when media watchdogs like the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), find untruths in articles about Israel and hold the news outlets to account. The feeling that we've achieved vicarious victory through CAMERA's important work is tempered, however, by the knowledge that millions have already read and absorbed the lies. Only a handful will ever read the correction. What then, do such corrections achieve? Take a recent article by the New York Times, "They Were Only Children," that abuses sentimentality to drive support for Israel to be replaced with another Arab state. The piece offers little context, no timeline, and only a pretense of balance. It is pure agitprop, a numbers game. We are overwhelmed with photos of dead Arab children, with a single photo of the only Jewish child killed by a rocket. The reader/viewer of this photographic display is directed toward the erroneous conclusion that Israel is the bad guy for killing more children than even Hamas. This is a stupid idea. If someone attacks you, you've got to attack back, harder, to make them stop. That, in a nutshell, is war. That's war. But there's war and there's war. Hamas fights a dirty war. It embeds militants...Read More |
This is one of the videos released to celebrate the Hamas summer camps, showing the first day of the second session. The song's chorus says, "Oh my people, wage resistance, don't show mercy towards the Jews, advance, as long as there's blood on our path, there's martyrdom..." What more proof do you need that Hamas teaches Jew-hatred to children in Gaza? (h/t Ibn Boutros) * * * * * *
...Read More |
From Ian: Biden Admin Deletes References to Palestinian Terror Incitement From Congressional Report The State Department deleted references to the Palestinian government's terror incitement in a report sent last week to Congress, highlighting what some see as an effort by the Biden administration to downplay Palestinian violence as it restarts U.S. taxpayer aid to the government. The Biden State Department's latest report to Congress, issued under a mandatory reporting statute included in the 1990 Palestine Liberation Organization Commitments Compliance Act, omits specific references to the Palestinian government's ongoing calls for violence, as well as its support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which wages economic warfare on Israel. Both issues, which are being closely tracked in Congress, were included in the outgoing Trump administration's October report, according to copies of both reports viewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Officials in Congress say it is notable that the State Department would omit two closely watched issues in the report, which is otherwise nearly identical to the Trump administration version, fueling accusations the Biden administration is whitewashing the Palestinians' bad behavior. The changes come amid a broader push by the Biden administration to renew hundreds of millions...Read More |
This 2013 article from Eve Garrard in Fathom is one of the best I've seen to explain modern antisemitism. If anything, it is more accurate today than it was then.
Excerpts: Anti-Semitism is fun, there's no doubt about it. You can't miss the relish with which some people compare Jews to the Nazis, or the fake sorrow, imperfectly masking deep satisfaction, with which they bemoan the supposed fact that Jews have brought hatred on themselves, especially by the actions of Israel and its Zionist supporters, and that they have inexplicably failed to learn the lessons of the Holocaust. (The Holocaust was not, of course, an educational exercise; and if there are lessons to be learned from it, we might think that the weakest pupils are those who once again wish to single out Jews above all others for hostile attention.) Like other forms of racism, anti-Semitism provides a variety of satisfactions for those who endorse it, and it's worth trying to analyse these pleasures, so that we may better understand and combat the whole phenomenon. There are (at least) three principal sources of pleasure which anti-Semitism provides: first, the pleasure of hatred; second, the pleasure of tradition, and third, the pleasure of displaying moral purity. Each of these is an independent source of satisfaction, but the three interact in various ways, which often strengthens their effects. No doubt the different sources of pleasure appeal...Read More |
Every Sunday through Thursday, dozens of Jews visit the Temple Mount. And every one of those days, there are Arabic newspaper articles about them, saying they are "settlers" who are "storming" and "defiling" the holy spot. However, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency doesn't usually decide to feature those articles as one of their top stories - after all, it happens every day. Except for this week. For the past few days, those Jews who come to visit their holiest spot have been the top story on Wafa. Today: Today, Wednesday, settlers stormed the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, under the protection of the occupation police. Local sources reported that dozens of settlers, including the extremist Rabbi Yehuda Glick, stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque through the Mughrabi Gate in groups, and performed Talmudic rituals, violating the sanctity of the holy place. Yesterday: Today, Tuesday, settlers stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, from the side of the Mughrabi Gate, under the protection of the Israeli occupation police . According to local sources, 44 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and carried out provocative tours in its courtyards, until they left it from the side of Bab al-Silsila . Monday: Today, Monday, settlers stormed the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under...Read More |
| | | |
אין תגובות:
הוסף רשומת תגובה