| Arab writer admits Arab "traitors" sold land to the Jews in the 1920s (and he's proud of Arabs that murdered them)noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 N | | An Arab writer, in a column ahead of the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, notes that plenty of Arabs sold their lands to Jews, and that if they hadn't done that, there would be no Jewish state. Nahd Zaquout starts off his piece by quoting a poem from 1929 by Ibrahim Toukan expressing the frustration of the writer that Arabs were selling lands to Jews. The name of the poem is "To the seller of the country." Extend / They sold the country to their enemies in greed for money,
but their homelands were sold. They
may be excused if hunger forced them, and by
God, they would never be thirsty or hungry.
If you say: its name is "a homeland,"
they do not understand, and without understanding greed,
think of your death in a land in which you grew up and
leave your grave a land the length of which he sold Zaquot then goes on to list the specific Arabs who sold large tracts of land to the Jews in the years after the Balfour Declaration.
The Sursock family (Michel Sursock and his brothers) sold 400,000 dunams to the Jews. The Salam family sold 165,000 dunams to the Jews, The Tians, Qabbanis, Bayhem, Sabbagh, Al-Quwatli, Al-Jaza'iri and Mardini families...Read More |
From Ian: Bret Stephens: Is There a Future for American Jews? The antisemitic outbursts during the Gaza War in May 2021 were not, in themselves, murderously violent. Yet the fact that they were expressed in the open, by people who plainly felt no fear in showing their faces, and who were met with weak and equivocating condemnations from so many quarters of the American establishment, gave them the quality of an omen, like the shattering of a single pane of glass. A few months later, House Democrats were briefly forced to capitulate to their most radical members by voting to remove $1 billion in funding for Iron Dome, a system whose sole purpose is to protect Israelis from lethal terrorist rockets. Any sentient American Jew with an instinct for danger has to know that things won't simply right themselves on their own. To adapt Isaac Newton, social trends in motion tend to stay in motion unless acted upon by an external force. What will that force be? Many of the essays in the current volume of Sapir make the case for Jewish fortification from the inside. Richer and deeper content in Jewish education. More effective management of Jewish organizations. Smarter outreach to potential converts. And so on. These are necessary and important conditions for Jewish survival and renewal in America. But they aren't quite sufficient. Jewish Americans live most of their lives outside the gates...Read More |
I had missed this story, and it is a pretty big one. From Haaretz: The Yom Kippur War was the first, and also the last, all-out war fought by Israel and the Arab countries after Israel became an undeclared Middle East nuclear state. The war, the most difficult since the War of Independence in terms of the number of losses Israel suffered, was the first test case of the impact of Israeli nuclear deterrence on the regional conflict.
... According to a number of sources, Sadat's insistence on a military action with a very limited territorial aim – to the pronounced displeasure of senior figures in the Egyptian armed forces – was partially related to his assessment that Israel would not use nuclear weapons in the face of a limited attack. At least one senior Egyptian source cites this as an explicit consideration by Sadat. Additional third-hand testimony supporting the idea that Egypt was deterred by Israel's nuclear capability from advancing toward the line of the Gidi and Mitla passes in the Sinai emerged in a television interview with Shimon Peres, conducted several months before his death, in 2016. Peres related that, on his arrival in Israel on November 19, 1977, President Anwar Sadat was welcomed by then-Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin. According to Peres, during the trip from the airport to Jerusalem...Read More |
From Ian: Yisrael Medad: NGOs fellow-traveling with Palestinian terror- opinion It was Tuvia Tenenbom, disguised as "Tobias," who in his book "Catch the Jew" shines an investigative light on what he termed the "peace industry" funded by foreign nations and NGOs. If that funding was reduced or properly spent, thousands of 'good souls' would lose jobs and their raison d'etre. And local Arabs would have less of an impetus potentially to siphon off funds for terror. Instead of propping up violence, we might have had peaceful behavior, compromise and coexistence long ago. As one example, in 2019, it was made clear to the EU that their monies were spent on BDS campaigns and the demonization of Israel. Moreover, the return, in early October, of the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Council is, in connection with this latest incident, all the more worrisome. This body, fed with lies and misrepresentations, much of it even antisemitic, by organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International – who do not do independent research but rely on reports from, among others, these six PFLP- NGOs in order to besmirch Israel, has created a cauldron of spuming hostility. This is combined with the fact that the diplomatic corps and the foreign affairs officials in the related countries who attend international conclaves and approve the spending are youngish and...Read More |
Here a case where the meta-story is more interesting than the story itself.
Israel's foreign ministry announced last week that the National Library of Israel has launched a digital archive of Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper dating back to its beginnings in 1875.
Egyptian journalists are upset. They denounced the move as Israel stealing Egyptian heritage.
This is a digital archive, not the actual physical paper. "This is a catastrophic incident that requires an immediate inquiry on the parts of Al-Ahram and the authorities in charge of the press in Egypt," Khaled El-Balshy, a former member of the journalists' syndicate board, told The New Arab. "The looming questions now are: how they did acquire the archive or how did they buy it? Who can give away valuable content like this to Israel?" he asked. "Other than normalisation, the idea is about intellectual property rights." The answer is on the archive page itself.
Apparently, an American company named East View Information Services purchased rights to the newspaper archives eight years ago for $185,000. They work together with Stanford University Libraries and the Hoover Institution to digitize historic foreign newspapers.
Israel seems to have purchased the rights to Al Ahram, although the rights only extend...Read More |
This weekend, as we marked the third anniversary of the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh, there was a great amount of news about antisemitic incidents in the US. A citizen at the Chandler school board meeting went on an antisemitic rant: Speaking about critical race theory and vaccines — topics not listed on the meeting agenda or discussed by the board — [Melanie] Rettler talked discursively for over a minute before blaming a number of the country's problems on the Jewish "race:" "If you want to talk about racism, if you want to bring it in, then let's bring it in. Let's get to the bottom of it. We're talking about white supremacy. OK, let's get to the very bottom of it. Every one of these things, the deep state, the cabal, the swamp, the elite — you can't mention it, but I will — there is one race that owns all the pharmaceutical companies and these vaccines aren't safe, they aren't effective and they aren't free. You know that you're paying for it through the increase in gas prices, the increase in food prices — you're paying for this and it's being taken from your money and being given to these pharmaceutical companies and if you want to bring race into this: It's the Jews." The school board complained that her screed was off-topic but did not address the fact that hate was spewed.
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