| US gives Palestinians 500,000 vaccines that will go to waste - most Palestinians don't want to get jabs.noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Aug 04:45 A | |
From Reuters:
A U.S. donation of 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses arrived in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza on Tuesday, as Palestinian officials work to boost uptake and counter a surge in new cases by requiring some workers to get the jab. The Palestinians began administering vaccines in February, but despite having purchased or received what officials have called "an abundance of doses", uptake has stalled at just 35% of age-eligible Palestinians in the West Bank, and around 11% in Gaza. With the U.S. donation of 500,000 Moderna doses, facilitated through the global COVAX vaccine-sharing programme, the Palestinians say they have now received 2.5 million doses. The West Bank will take 300,000 of the donation and Gaza 200,000. "Stalled" is right. Few seem to want the vaccine in the Palestinian areas. A mere 4200 doses a day were administered over the past week. At that rate, they wouldn't run out of the vaccines they already have for seven months - enough time for the US donation to expire! (Assuming about 2.3 million Palestinian adults and 1 million doses already given.) For months, we were told that Palestinians were being deprived of much needed vaccines. But none of those reporters...Read More |
From Ian: Emily Schrader: 'Woke' activists outraged by Israel stay silent on Taliban - opinion There's no shortage of hypocrisy when it comes to anti-Israel activists and the selective outrage over Israel's actions. For as long as there's been an Israel, there has been an obsessive focus on critiquing the state's every move while more recently, turning a blind eye to human rights atrocities around the world, including human rights violations of Palestinians by Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. With the tragedy in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US troops, so-called "woke" activists who previously were concerned with "joint struggles for liberation" now seem to be largely silent on the issue. These activists and groups are ignoring the crisis in Afghanistan at the hands of Taliban and instead are choosing to demonize Israel to further their own political agendas, throwing their allegiance to "intersectionality" out the window. As the Taliban has swiftly taken control of Afghanistan, the world watches in horror as we can only forecast what the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" will mean for women, minorities, the LGBT community, and more, who are already being stripped of whatever rights they had obtained in the past 20 years. Does a shared intersectional struggle only matter when it comes to Palestinians? Do Afghani lives not matter to...Read More |
50 memes from EoZ
noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 24 Aug 03:00 PM I created a quick ebook with 50 (okay, 51) of my popular pro-Israel text memes that I have posted on Twitter.
Enjoy! 50 memes from EoZ * * * * * *
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Al Masry al-Youm reports that Dr. Ahmed Karima, Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University, has allowed husbands to take second wives on a "part-time" basis, under specific conditions.
The main issue is that the existing wife must agree to having her husband sleep with someone else for a few hours, and a nuptial agreement that the second "wife" has no claims to be provided with a place to live and does not stay overnight, that the marriage is witnessed by two men and that the man pays his "wife" a dowry. Yes, it sounds like legalized prostitution.
Karima does not agree with the longer "temporary" marriages where men who travel pick up another "wife" for a fre months and discard them when they leave.
His opinion has caused an uproar in Egypt. Egypt's Dar al Ifta, which is an official Egyptian authority on Islamic law, tweeted a statement on the controversy that, even when translated into English, seems impenetrable:
We should not be drawn behind the calls for modern terminology in marriage which has increased in recent times wherein lies a love of showing off and fame and destabilization of values, which creates confusion in society and negatively affects the meaning of stability and cohesion of the family that our religion seeks and the state has nurtured through laws. It sounds like they are expressing disapproval but tacitly...Read More |
From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: Arabs: Biden Brings Extremism, Terrorism Back to Life For the first time in several years, the jihadis sense US weakness, confusion and lack of vision under the Biden administration. "The United States withdrew from [Afghanistan] to open the door for its enemies and opponents to fill the vacuum.... If we assess the situation, we will find that the forces that will replace the US there are: Russia, China, Pakistan, and of course Iran. Russia and China are driven by the desire to exploit the vast mineral wealth of Afghanistan." — Jameel Al-Theyabi, Saudi journalist and political analyst, Okaz, August 15, 2021. "The escalating threat of terrorism from Afghanistan appears to be taking place with the support and patronage of major countries... by turning a blind eye to the activities of violent and terrorist organizations, which require Arab and international solidarity to confront the threat of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda together." — Monir Adib, Egyptian expert on global terrorism, Al-Ain, August 16, 2021. "The Americans must admit their failure to build a state, or an army, in Afghanistan, or even a movement to confront terrorism and extremism, and now it is withdrawing all its agents, leaving Afghanistan hostage in the hands of extremists." — Osama Saraya, former editor of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram; Al-Ahram, August 16, 2021. Thanks to the Biden administration, say...Read More |
As we mentioned last week, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been trying to act as a hero to save Lebanon by organizing an Iranian oil tanker to deliver much needed fuel - and daring Israel and the US to stop it.
He doubled down, literally, on Sunday: Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday announced that a second ship carrying fuel will sail to Lebanon "within days." "Our first ship has become at sea, our second ship will sail within days and more ships will follow," Nasrallah said in a televised speech commemorating Abbas al-Yatama, a Hizbullah military commander who died a week ago. "We are seeking to alleviate the suffering and what we will bring will be for all Lebanese and all those living on Lebanese soil. It will not be for one Lebanese region without the other," Nasrallah noted. "We are not an alternative to the state in this matter or in any other matter. We cannot be so and we are not an alternative to the companies that import oil," Hizbullah's leader pointed out. That bolded sentence shows how sensitive Nasrallah is to the criticisms of his first announcement. He added for good measure, "If the (foreign) companies fear Israel and the sanctions, we are willing to bring an Iranian drilling company to extract offshore oil...Read More |
The New York Times writes about Jews praying on the Temple Mount and how supposedly dangerous this is: Since Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967, it has maintained a fragile religious balance at the Temple Mount, the most divisive site in Jerusalem: Only Muslims can worship there, while Jews can pray at the Western Wall below. But recently the government has quietly allowed increasing numbers of Jews to pray there, a shift that could aggravate the instability in East Jerusalem and potentially lead to religious conflict. "It's a sensitive place," said Ehud Olmert, a former Israeli prime minister. "And sensitive places such as this, which have an enormous potential for explosion, need to be treated with care." [D]ozens of Jews now openly pray every day in a secluded part of the eastern flank of the site, and their Israeli police escorts no longer attempt to stop them. To many Palestinians, the shift is provocative and unfair. They feel that Muslims have already made a big concession at the Western Wall, which is now used mostly by Jewish worshipers despite its also being important to Muslims. Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, the director of the mosque, said that the Aqsa compound should be reserved for Muslim prayer, in recognition of its importance to Muslims. "It has been named Al Aqsa since the Prophet Muhammad rose to heaven there," Sheikh Omar said. The...Read More |
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