| Palestinian media proud that the family of a child killed by a Gaza rocket is movingnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 21 Oct 04:45 AM Every once in a w | | Every once in a while, the Palestinian media still manages to shock with how utterly immoral it is. During the May conflict, one of the Israeli victims was 5-year old Ido Avigal, who lived in Sderot and who was in a safe room that suffered a direct hit.
Israeli media is now reporting that the Avigal family has decided to move away from Sderot to live in a moshav near Kiryat Malachi. His mother wrote a letter to her late child about the move, and how the family has kept all of his toys.
The disgusting site Palestine Today is bragging about the Avigal family move.
The Islamic Jihad-linked website says that "the family of settler Ido Avigal, who was killed by shrapnel from the resistance's rockets in the "Sword of Jerusalem" battle, will flee Thursday from the Sderot settlement adjacent to the Gaza Strip."
The typically lying site says "In the first moments of the battle, the resistance managed to target a military enclave on the borders of the Gaza Strip, which led to the injury and killing of the soldiers in it. "
The five year old Ido is considered one of the "soldiers" in the Sderot "settlement."
In the end, the bragging betrays the most pathetic thing about Palestinians as reported in their own media. They act like toddlers who throw tantrums, screaming to be noticed. When they get any attention whatsoever, they are happy. They must spin the fact that an Israeli family whose child they killed is moving into a narrative...Read More |
From Ian: Meir Y. Soloveichik: Hamilton, Barnard, and the Ominous Decree of 2021 In September, a bureaucrat at Barnard College, the sister institution of Columbia University, declared the millennia-old religious requirements of Judaism null and void. To understand the exquisite irony of her announcement, we must first review the origins of this academic institution. After the American Revolution, a New Yorker by the name of Alexander Hamilton returned to the city. As an alumnus of the formerly royalist institution called Kings College, Hamilton oversaw its transformation into Columbia. As a sign of its embrace of equality, Hamilton installed on Columbia's Board of Regents the spiritual leader of New York's Jewish community, Gershom Mendes Seixas. The historian Andrew Porwancher describes in his fascinating new book about Hamilton how the Founding Father built his legal career in New York representing the members of Seixas's congregation at a time when others might have been reluctant to do so. Considering the quotas that were yet to come at America's elite schools, Hamilton's embrace of Jews at Columbia was remarkable: "In a young country caught between egalitarian promises and enduring prejudices, Hamilton's reforms at his alma mater demonstrate his commitment to the revolutionary ideal of equality," Porwancher writes in The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton. The installation...Read More |
Thomas Hardy was definitely not Jewish. But Hardy knew there was no such thing as the "West Bank." And he knew that Jerusalem belonged to the Jews. Hardy's family couldn't afford to send him to university, so his formal education ended at the age of 16 when he was apprenticed to a local architect. But for all that, Hardy knew Latin, and appeared to have a nodding acquaintance with other languages, including a smattering of Hebrew (more on this later). Like other Victorian writers, Hardy sprinkled his more than 900 poems, short stories, and plays with quotes from ecclesiastical works and the classics, and was well-acquainted with solar mythology. Hardy was an autodidact. When not at work, he read, and learned how to write by writing. In my own efforts to self-educate, I have been known to raid the classics shelf in our local library, reading things the rest of my peers have read long ago, in school. Which is how I came to read Jude the Obscure. When I mentioned the book to friends, they said it was the one Hardy book they truly disliked. But I didn't know the book from a hole in the wall. I only knew that it was by Thomas Hardy, and as such, was a classic. That meant I was going to read it. Thomas Hardy, painting by William Strang Hardy, like Jane Austen before him, was a social critic. He rebelled against entrenched beliefs that put constraints on people and made them miserable. Jude the Obscure, published in 1895, for example, caused a ruckus for its controversial take...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal Humans have always arranged themselves into families, extended families, and tribes. After all, they are primates, and many other primate species act similarly. Sometimes tribes clash over a piece of territory. Maybe the ground is fertile or the hunting is good. When that happens, the tribes fight. If there are other tribes nearby, each side may seek allies to help them win. This is the way human beings behave. We think we are different today. We are not. Usually one tribe is the aggressor and one is the victim. The goal of the aggressor is to take what the victim has: property and land, and sometimes to enslave the useful members of the victim tribe. Some tribes have been very successful in serial aggressions, even building empires as they sweep across the land, employing techniques of aggression that they improve with successive conquests. The Arab conquests of the 7 century and the Mongols of the 13 come to mind. Sometimes the aggressor wins, and sometimes the intended victim beats the aggressor off, or even destroys him. Sometimes there are repeated conflicts with no clear winner over a long period. When one tribe achieves a conclusive victory, the other tribe usually disappears. They are killed, enslaved, expelled, females raped, and their genetic material fades into the background noise. The culture of the aggressor becomes the dominant culture in conquered areas. Their language and their religion replace those of the losing tribe. In...Read More |
From Ian: White House Discussing Israel Normalization With Saudis The administration of US President Joe Biden is discussing with Saudi Arabia the possibility of normalizing relations with Israel by joining the Abraham Accords, Israeli news site Walla! reports. White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan raised the issue last month in Riyadh during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), according to three US and Arab sources involved in the talks. The sources said that during the conversation, MBS did not immediately reject the proposal to establish diplomatic ties with Israel, listing the steps needed to make the move, including improving relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia. On Thursday, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud was in Washington for a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The possibility of Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords was not mentioned in the public statements of either side. The Biden administration has taken a more critical stance toward the kingdom compared to his predecessor Donald Trump, focusing on human rights and raising the issue of the assassination of Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The report states that any deal would need to be part of a larger package that would include Israeli measures regarding the Palestinians and a thawing...Read More |
Mahmoud Abbas held a meeting of his Fatah Central Committee yesterday. Its main accomplishment, if you can call it that, was a pledge to hold the Eighth Fatah Conference in March of 2022.
Abbas railed against Israel, as usual. And he issued threats, which the Western media will ignore.
He said, "We will not remain silent forever in the face of the intransigence of the Israeli occupation and its refusal to abide by signed agreements. All options will remain open to the Palestinian people and their leadership to preserve the Palestinian rights and principles that we will never accept to be compromised."
What options might he be talking about? For that, we just have to look at the Fatah Platform from the Sixth Fatah Conference of 2009, confirmed in the Seventh Conference in 2016.
In that platform, it says, "The Palestinian people's right to practice armed resistance against the military occupation of their land remains a constant right confirmed by international law and international legality."
It is worth mentioning that Palestinians even admit that Palestinian culture is one of admiring violence and terror. Only last week, there was the opening of the "Bethlehem: Capital of Arab Culture 2020-2021 week." Here is one of the...Read More |
Radio Sweden reports that Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde warned the Palestinians that their endemic corruption ensures that they do not get Swedish funds.
"If we are to fully support economic development, then we can not have corruption at such a level as exists in Palestine," she said. Linde met with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, prime minister Muhammad Shtayyeh and foreign minister Riyad Al-Maliki. She also allayed the Palestinian fears that her thawing of relations with Israel - this was the first such delegation to visit Israel in ten years - will not affect the Swedish attitude of support for Palestinians. She reiterated Sweden's support for a two state solution and for Palestinians to be able to hold elections in east Jerusalem. Which means that even the staunchest Palestinian allies in Europe are starting to realize that the money they send Palestinians is being wasted. * * * * * *
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