| Algeria partially blames Israel for its severing ties with Morocco. (It doesn't have to make sense.)noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Aug 04:45 AM A | | Al-Monitor lists lots of excuses that Algeria blames Israel somehow for its decision to break relations with Morocco. Algeria's announcement this week that it was severing its diplomatic ties with Morocco came as no surprise — Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had issued a statement Aug. 18 saying relations with Morocco were being reviewed. Still, the depth of accusations Algeria leveled against Israel Aug. 24 did surprise Jerusalem. More than the Palestinian issue, the Algerian anger against the Israeli-Moroccan rapprochement was fueled by the American recognition of Moroccan sovereignty of Western Sahara. .... Algeria has been supporting the Western Sahara independence movement Polisario for decades, and the new triple Israeli-American-Moroccan consensus on Western Sahara was perceived by Algeria as especially hostile. Recently, Algeria accused Morocco of complicity in deadly forest fires where 90 people were killed. According to Algerian authorities, the fires were of criminal origin..."particularly the MAK, which receives the support and aid of foreign parties ... Morocco and the Zionist entity." Algerian anger was further fueled by the Aug. 12 visit of Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to Morocco. During that visit, Lapid expressed concerns over signs of rapprochement between Algeria and Iran. Algeria was furious over this statement, as clearly expressed...Read More |
From Ian: Dozens of Civilians, at Least 12 US Troops Killed in Bloodbath at Kabul Airport Suicide bombers struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport with at least two explosions on Thursday, causing a bloodbath among civilians and US troops, and bringing a catastrophic halt to the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans desperate to flee. Two US officials put the US death toll at 12 service members killed, making it one of the deadliest incidents for American troops of the entire 20-year war. There was no complete toll of Afghan civilians but video images uploaded by Afghan journalists showed dozens of bodies of people killed in packed crowds outside the airport. A watery ditch by the airport fence was filled with blood-soaked corpses, some being fished out and laid in heaps on the canal side while wailing civilians searched for loved ones. Several Western countries said the airlift of civilians was now effectively over, with the United States having sealed the gates of the airport leaving no way out for tens of thousands of Afghans who worked for the West through two decades of war. A Taliban official said at least 13 people including children had been killed in the attack and 52 were wounded, though it was clear from video footage that those figures were far from complete. One surgical hospital run by an Italian charity said it alone was treating more...Read More |
In 2017, Jewish Voice for Peace published a document that explains perfectly what a sham the organization is.
As the majority of what makes the earth, water is in one sense an ordinary resource. As those in Palestine and Puerto Rico are denied access to adequate water, water as an extraordinary resource is amplified. Mikveh is a simple ritual. In it's simplicity, it is extraordinary. We hope that this ritual will bring you closer to an experience of Jewish culture. We hope this closeness fuels your work for justice in Palestine. We hope a depth is integrated between your one simple life and the extraordinary movement we are all in together. Enjoy this mikveh guide and check out this incredible project queer Jews are doing with mikveh in the spirit of living in diaspora. The "Mikveh Ritual Guide" is a truly bizarre mishmash of new-age nonsense that has literally nothing to do with Judaism except for its gratuitous use of some Hebrew words. In fact, parts of it are pretty much idol worship. Excerpts: WHO GETS TO DO MIKVEH?
Everyone! Mikveh practice is available to all of us as a healing tool at any time. You don't need any credentials. Your own wisdom is all the power you need to be a Jewish ritual leader. We do mikvahs in lakes, rivers, bathtubs, showers, outside in the rain, from teacups and in our imaginations. Mikveh has been continually practiced since ancient Judaism. It is an...Read More |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Jerusalem, August 29 - Israeli public health officials has launched a pilot program under which a character from a television comedy series by Marvel will serve as spokeswoman each time the Ministry of Health issues new guidelines or predictions, to lend such messages the appropriate gravitas and credibility. Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz told reporters today (Thursday) that beginning this week, updates on restrictions and the effectiveness of COVID mitigation efforts will come through Agatha (Agnes) Harkness, who established a reputation for delivering information at face value via her appearance in Season 1 Episode 3 of the comedy series Wandavision (see photo). "We are pleased to announce that we have teamed with the person who, we believe, embodies the proper level of seriousness we strive to convey through the information and recommendations we provide," Horowitz stated. "This initiative begins next week and will proceed as a trial phase at least through the upcoming holidays in the month of Tishrei, after which we will assess its impact on the public's adherence to constantly-shifting and scientifically-dubious policies that we always assure them will contain the spread of coronavirus." "If it proves successful," the minister continued, "Ms...Read More |
From Ian: At least 13 said killed at Kabul airport in suspected IS suicide attack Explosions went off on Thursday outside the Kabul airport, where thousands of people were gathered to try to flee Afghanistan on Western airlifts since the Taliban seized power earlier this month. Officials described the incident as deadly suicide bombings allegedly carried out by the Islamic State terror group. The Pentagon and Russia's Foreign Ministry said a second explosion then went off outside Kabul airport. Moscow said the twin suicide attacks killed at least 13 people and wounded another 15. A Taliban official told Reuters children were among the killed and numerous Taliban guards were among the injured. A US official told Fox News that the explosion near one of the airport gates in Kabul was a combined suicide bombing and firefight. The outlet said at least three US troops were injured and that there were also Afghan casualties. A US official said on condition of anonymity that the attack was "definitely believed" to have been carried out by the Islamic State. The terror group, which is more radical than the Taliban and has carried out a wave of attacks targeting civilians, was yet to officially claim responsibility. The US official said members of the US military were wounded in the attack, which involved two suicide bombers and gunmen...Read More |
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Palestinian prime minister Mohamed Shtayyeh met with Sweden's deputy foreign minister Robert Rydberg on Tuesday,
He used the occasion to ask the EU to pressure Israel economically to agree to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. He also thanked Sweden for its supposed support for the "right of return." (As far as I can tell, Sweden's position is for a token number of Palestinians to be allowed to move to Israel as part of a larger peace agreement, and it says "the Palestinians will have to abandon their demand for a mass repatriation to Israel itself.")
Perhaps the most absurd part of the conversation was Shtayyeh's insistence on the fiction that the PA really, really wanted to hold the scheduled legislative elections in May, but Israel's refusal to allow Arabs in Jerusalem to vote is what scuttled the plan.
Even though that was the excuse used by Abbas when he canceled the elections in April, no one believed him. His Fatah party had split into three groups and polling showed that Hamas would win handily. And the few thousand Jerusalem Arabs who used post offices in 2006 to cast remote ballots could have easily...Read More |
In 2019, after Israel originally denied permission for Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to visit the West Bank because of their support for BDS, Tlaib appealed to Interior Minister Aryeh Deri asking to visit her elderly grandmother ("sity") on humanitarian grounds, saying that she will not use the occasion to promote boycotting Israel. Israel granted permission for her visit.
After a backlash from her fans, Tlaib did an about-face and angrily said that she would never submit to such humiliating restrictions - that she had explicitly accepted only one day beforehand. Her sity was just not that important. This week, Tlaib criticized the Palestinian Authority for their arrests of protesters, telling Mahmoud Abbas "Shame on you!"
According to Khaled Abu Toameh, as a result of her tweet, Tlaib "is persona non grata in Palestine, according to a senior Palestinian official in Ramallah." So even if Tlaib would want to visit her grandmother now - whether through Israel or through Jordan -it looks like the Palestinian Authority would ban her.
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