| UNRWA head admits Palestinian textbooks include antisemitism and support for terror - but denies UNRWA teaches them!noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 | | From EJP: The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, acknowledged that Palestinian textbooks contain problematic material, while still insisting that the agency takes steps to prevent it from being taught, without showing that how this is actually accomplished. He stated, in a hearing before the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee (AFET), that antisemitism, intolerance glorification of terrorism is present in PA textbooks in UNRWA schools and affirmed that his agency had revised the textbooks used in its schools following allegations of antisemitic content. But several members of the committee questioned him on continued teaching of hate, violence and antisemitism in Palestinian Authority (PA) textbooks and UNRWA materials, citing a recent report by IMPACT-se, an organization that analyzes schoolbooks and curricula for compliance with UNESCO-defined standards on peace and tolerance. on the textbooks. It is an interesting strategy to admit that PA textbooks that UNRWA uses are antisemitic and then claiming that UNRWA's antisemitic teachers aren't teaching it. We know this is a lie because UNRWA's own materials were shown this year to celebrate martyrdom and violence...Read More |
From Ian: Parole for Sirhan B. Sirhan? RFK's help for Israel drove his assassin During a television interview in 1989, the Jerusalem-born Sirhan said he felt betrayed by Kennedy's Israel proposal. The assassination occurred a short time after Kennedy, a senator from New York, delivered a victory speech upon winning California's Democratic presidential primary. "The prisoner killed my father because of his support of Israel," former U. S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II wrote in response to the recommendation, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. "The man was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Yet he now may walk free, no doubt to the cheers of those who share his views. Let there be no mistake, the prisoner's release will be celebrated by those who believe that political disagreements can be solved by a gun." Joseph Kennedy also wrote of other aspects of his father's assassination, including its impact on his family. Sirhan was lucky to receive the life sentence. He was initially sentenced to death, over the objections of RFK's younger brother and Senate colleague Edward M. Kennedy. Sirhan's punishment became a life sentence when California's top court temporarily ruled against the state's death penalty in 1972. Many Americans can think of a few compelling reasons why Friday's recommendation should be rejected. First, the parole board's legal division must review it in a process that could take four...Read More |
Al Jazeera (Arabic) writes about the hardship of Palestinian Arabs who work in Israel who are forced to not work during the upcoming Jewish holidays this month. Israel closes the crossings to the territories during Israeli holidays. Of course, Egypt closes its crossing to Gaza on Egyptian holidays, but no one seems overly concerned about that. That isn't the only horrific human rights violation that Palestinians complain about for Jewish holidays. They are also upset that Jews visit Jewish shrines on Jewish holidays, including Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and many others. Specialist in Israeli affairs, Ismat Mansour, describes the closures, which are carried out under the pretext of Jewish holidays, as a ritual of restricting Palestinians and disturbing their lives on security grounds, although the situation today is closer to calm....The problem with the Jewish holidays - according to Mansour - is that there are many of them, and the closures may extend for long days, as happens on the Passover holiday, in which the closure extends for a week In addition to this, the national holidays, especially the Independence Day, are considered a history of the catastrophe...Read More |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Ramallah, September 3 - Observers of Palestinian society have noted of late that more than a century of rejecting the notion and manifestation of a sovereign Jewish presence anywhere in the ancestral Jewish homeland, bringing upon themselves a century of misery and political limbo, has served as ample training to reject immunization against the CoV-SARS-2 pathogen, whereby they also bring upon themselves misery. Commentators specializing in Palestinian social and political trends remarked this week that Palestinian collective unwillingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19 marks a phenomenon that could not have happened with such robust force without the similarly self-destructive refusal to accept Israel as a concept, and then as a fait accompli. "I'm not sure Palestinian society would be where it is today, COVID-immunization-wise, if not for irredentism and intransigence on Jewish sovereignty," argued Khalil Shikaki, a prominent Palestinian pollster. "It takes a long time to nurture an intolerance so profound that one will indulge it even at disastrous cost to oneself or one's identity group. Palestinian vaccine avoidance didn't spring up out of nowhere; it's of a piece with Palestinian avoidance of accommodation with the reality of the Zionist project...Read More |
From Ian: Douglas Murray: America, the Taliban and a farewell to arms Like all Islamists, the Taliban are rather good at this sort of thing. They loathe modernity and everything that the modern West has brought the world. But they are perfectly happy to use the fruits of that modernity against it. So while left to their own devices, the Taliban would have struggled to invent (let alone operate) the wheel, the modern world just keeps putting its finest weaponry in their hands. And if you are gifted such things then of course you will use them, albeit for your pre-medieval aims. The defeated powers are playing the game of 'reformed Taliban' to buy themselves the tiniest amount of time in what looks set to be a long game of humiliation. Canada's minister for equality, Maryam Monsef, addressed the Taliban direct last week. In a video message she called on 'our brothers, the Taliban', to 'ensure the safe and secure passage' out of Afghanistan of anyone who wants to leave. Yet in the competition for lead Pollyanna in the West, Monsef doesn't even make the finals. That award must surely go to the US special representative to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad. As the last US troops were leaving, Khalilzad could be found proclaiming the Taliban 'now face a test'. What is that test? 'If you can get one Black Hawk over Kabul on the first day, how many days will it take you to get the whole fleet...Read More |
I have noted many times in the past that when Palestinians say that "historic Palestine" is congruent with the borders of the British Mandate created in 1921, they cannot have too much history. The Palestinian prime minister proved that yet again on Wednesday. The Jordanian Minister of Agriculture visited the Palestinian prime minister Muhammad Shtayyeh in Ramallah, and Shtayyeh made a statement about the rich ties between his nonexistent nation and Jordan. He "reiterated the spirit of partnership between Palestine and Jordan at all levels and throughout history, stressing that the two countries are partners in blood, history and unity of destiny." Before 1946, Jordan was just a river. Before 1922, Transjordan was just a region - just as Palestine was before 1921. Palestinians are no more descended from Canaanites as Jordanians are from Moabites or Ammonites. So I suppose that Jordan and "Palestine" do have a history in common, in that until recently, they had no history. I was amused b * * * * * *
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Mahmoud Abbas is in Egypt and met with Egyptian journalists, where he repeated his usual talking points. One of the points he wanted to make was that American public opinion is turning against Israel, saying that the American public mood has begun describing Israel as racist, aggressive and committing war crimes. Abbas is especially heartened by anti-Zionist statements made by American Jews. He also called out the US church denominations that have embraced anti-Israel positions. As we have seen in years past, when Abbas feels like he has Westerners on his side, he becomes more intransigent, thinking that in time the West will force Israel to make concessions beyond what Israel has already offered. The anti-Zionists, who punch way above their weight in publicity, are giving Palestinians hope for their ultimate victory, so it is no wonder they refuse to compromise for peace. * * * * * *
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