| Saudi Arabia sentences 69 Hamas members to prisonnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 09 Aug 05:10 AM Hamas is outraged that some 69 members of the terror | | Hamas is outraged that some 69 members of the terror organization have been sentenced to prison terms in Saudi Arabia. Those sentenced include the Hamas representative in Saudi Arabia, Mohammed al-Khoudary, and his son Hani.
The elder Khoudary is said to have been close to the Saudi royal family in years past.
Saudi Arabia arrested scores of Palestinians and Jordanians in 2019 - over a year before the Abraham Accords.
This indicates (but does not prove) that the Saudis were turning against the Palestinian terror groups independently of any potential ties to Israel.
Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Saudis have outlawed that group as a terrorist group since 2014.
Al Qaeda likewise has its ideological roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, although the Brotherhood claims to have been against violence for decades.
Obviously, Hamas does not subscribe to that philosophy. Indeed, Hamas' defense of their members in Saudi Arabia has been that they hadn't committed any crimes specifically against the Kingdom.
There are strong indications that the sentences were not handed out with what anyone would consider due process - there are reports that the defendants were denied access to...Read More |
A writer for The National (UAE) writes, "Vaccines aren't easy to come by in Gaza, from where I've just returned."
That's strange, because UNRWA announced that there are plenty of vaccines just waiting for people to come. They have COVID vaccines available in clinics in (Sputnik)Sheikh Radwan
Shati
Al-Bureij
Rafah (Pfizer)
Al-Fakhoura
North Gaza (Al-Saftawi)
Beit Hanoun
Jabalia
Al-Sabra
Rimal
Nuseirat
Maghazi
Deir Al-Balah
Khan Younis
Al YaBaniat
Ma'an
Tal al-Sultan
Shabura For some reason, there has been no update on vaccination data for the Palestinian territories since August 5, but only 20,000 Palestinians altogether got their first dose in the week before that.
Palestinian health officials have the capacity to administer 50,000 shots every day. For months we were told that the Palestinians were suffering from a severe shortage of vaccines. Now it turns out that even if they would have accepted the million Israeli vaccines offered since mid-June, they would have thrown them out anyway - very few Palestinians are interested in the shot. There aren't lines of people wanting the shot, but lines of clinics begging people to take the shot.
But the news media suddenly lost interest in the story. * * * * * *
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From Ian: PMW: Blood money: The PA has already paid $1,183,257 to the terrorists who blew up the Sbarro pizza shop murdering 15 and injuring 130 Tomorrow, August 9, 2021, will mark 20 years since the attack on the Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem. 15 people were murdered, including 5 members of one family, and 130 people were injured. As a reward for carrying out the attack, each month the Palestinian Authority pays a total of US$8,006 (25,800 shekels) to the imprisoned terrorists and the families of the dead terrorists, who were involved in the attack. By now, the PA has paid Abdullah Barghouti, the terrorist who built the bomb and is responsible for the murder of 67 people in various attacks, a cumulative sum of US$285,571 (921,500 shekels). Every month, the PA pays him a salary of US$2,255 (7,300 shekels). In addition, the PA has paid the family of the suicide bomber US$68,498 (221,400 shekels). Every month the PA continues to pay his family an allowance of US$432 (1,400 shekels). The minimum wage in the PA is 1,450 shekels/month (US$44). The monthly PA salary payments to the imprisoned terrorists are not just a whim. Rather, they are codified in the PA Law of Prisoners and Released Prisoners, No. 19 of 2004 and regulations promulgated pursuant to the law. Thus, "Government Decision No. (23) for 2010 regarding a regulation of payment of a monthly salary to the prisoner" sets the salary scale the PA pays to imprisoned terrorists...Read More |
In April 2004, President Bush sent a letter to Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon supporting Israel's withdrawal from Gaza - but with a crucial addition that Sharon sought. The letter said, "As part of a final peace settlement, Israel must have secure and recognized borders, which should emerge from negotiations between the parties in accordance with UNSC Resolutions 242 and 338. In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli populations centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949, and all previous efforts to negotiate a two-state solution have reached the same conclusion. It is realistic to expect that any final status agreement will only be achieved on the basis of mutually agreed changes that reflect these realities."
Two months later, the House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to support that position. The Senate resolution 393 said:
Whereas, in light of realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949, but realistic to expect that any final status agreement will...Read More |
Back in 2014, I looked at the origins of the phrase "drive the Jews into the sea," because some have claimed that the expression was a hoax by Jews and Arabs never used that phrase in reference to Jews in Israel. I found solid evidence that it was used after 1948, and then saw that the phrase was documented in the book "O Jerusalem" as having been used first by a Jerusalem police chief Kamal Irekat, adopted by the infamous Mufti of Jerusalem and then used by Fawzi el Kaukji, an Arab League field commander. Yisrael Medad looked at the issue and found a British memo from August 1948 from Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin: It is quite untrue to suggest that we have let the Arabs down or failed in any obligations towards them. We did not urge them to intervene by force in Palestine, nor did we promise them support if they did so. They went in of their own accord, in most cases without telling us beforehand. Very small measure of military successes which they achieved shows that their forces, while capable perhaps of occupying friendly territory, were not prepared for and incapable of undertaking major military operations, which would have been necessary to achieve the announced object of the Arab...Read More |
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