| Palestine Scholars Association praises the heroism of murdering a Jewnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Nov 05:45 AM Here is a press release from the | | Here is a press release from the Palestine Scholars Association in the Diaspora, putting an Islamic imprimatur on murdering Jews: A statement about the heroic operation carried out by the martyr Sheikh Fadi Abu Shkhaydam in Jerusalem The Almighty said: {And do not think that those who were killed in the way of Allah are dead, but they are alive with their Lord, receiving sustenance} Al Imran 69:1 Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and blessings and peace be upon our master Muhammad and his family and companions and those who followed them in goodness until the Day of Judgment; And yet: The Association of Palestinian Scholars congratulates our Palestinian people and our Islamic nation on the heroic operation carried out by the martyr Sheikh Fadi Abu Shkhaydam on the doorstep of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. This heroic operation, which is considered a security penetration of the security fortresses of the Zionist enemy and an outperformance of its intelligence capabilities, to vex and abuse them in full view of the world. The martyred preacher Sheikh Fadi...Read More |
From Ian: Meir Y. Soloveichik: Hanukkah Unbound It is with this in mind that the central ritual of Hanukkah today—the kindling of several small flames in commemoration of a Menorah that burned in the Temple for eight miraculous nights—must be understood. The story of the flask of oil has been mocked by bigoted anti-Jewish writers who celebrate the intellectual achievements of Hellenism. Thus did Christopher Hitchens sneer that "Epicurus and Democritus had brilliantly discovered the world was made up of atoms, but who cares about a mere fact like that when there is miraculous oil to be goggled at by credulous peasants." But such a critique, like most of Hitchens's commentary on biblical religion, entirely misses the point. The contrast between the fire of Greece and the flames of the Talmud allows us to understand that for Jews, to light the menorah is to do more than mark a miracle; it is to look at those small flames and ponder what biblical monotheism bequeathed to a pagan world, and the miraculous endurance of the tiny people that brought this message to humanity. We are indeed forever indebted to Athens for its intellectual achievements, but the menorah's flames remind us of the insights found not in Athens but Jerusalem—that human beings are created in the image of God, and therefore precious and inviolable; that history has purpose; and that countries stand under...Read More |
Buried deep into a piece about the heart-wrenching murder of Eli Kay, HY"D,\* was this sentence: "The Temple Mount was closed to Jews immediately after the attack." This is a sentence to which we have become accustomed to encountering after every Jerusalem terror attack. And it is a painful sentence to read. It is a sentence that represents a fundamental disagreement between everyday Israelis and decisions successive Israeli governments, through the years, have made. Many of us believe it is a tactical mistake for Israel to make it illegal for Israeli Jews to exercise their religious rights in reference to the holiest site in Judaism. It means we have ceded sovereignty, surrendered power. It means they, the Arabs, have won the battle, and kept the Temple Mount for themselves, the crown jewel of Jerusalem, Judenrein. They kill us in the streets of the Holy City, and our response is to make concessions. We make nice to them by sacrificing our own fundamental human rights, as we watch them preen over their victory and plan the next step in eradicating the Jewish presence in what they think of as their land. And so it goes with all our religious sites. When the sovereign government of Israel forbids Jews from visiting religious shrines, what are the Arabs to understand but that the Jews have submitted to Allah...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal What does the Biden Administration actually want? One might think it is that Iran will not make nuclear weapons. But it's more complicated than that. To try to answer the question, I looked at a recent article in America's own Pravda, the NY Times. Some of the arguments attributed to US officials that appear in that piece are difficult to criticize, because they are so bad that it's impossible to take them seriously. For example, American officials have warned their Israeli counterparts that the repeated attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities may be tactically satisfying, but they are ultimately counterproductive, according to several officials familiar with the behind-the-scenes discussions. Israeli officials have said they have no intention of letting up, waving away warnings that they may only be encouraging a sped-up rebuilding of the program — one of many areas in which the United States and Israel disagree on the benefits of using diplomacy rather than force. Perhaps if Iranian leaders were indifferent about the importance of their nuclear program, then they might be spurred to give it a higher priority in response to sabotage. But their actions in recent years indicate that they will do whatever they can get away with in order to succeed. It is their top priority. The pedal is already to the metal. Of course they rebuild what is damaged or destroyed...Read More |
From Ian: Australia labels all of Hezbollah a terrorist organization Australia on Wednesday listed all of Hezbollah as a "terrorist organization," extending an existing ban on armed units to the entire organization, which wields considerable power in Lebanon. Australian Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said that the Iran-backed Shiite group "continues to threaten terrorist attacks and provide support to terrorist organizations," and poses a "real" and "credible" threat to Australia. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who met with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison earlier this month at the UN climate conference, where he urged him to enact the Hezbollah ban, welcomed the decision. "I thank the government of Australia and my friend Scott Morrison for their intention to define Hezbollah as a terrorist organization," he tweeted. "We will continue to act in every way possible against terrorism, including in the international arena." Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said that "Australia is a close friend of Israel in the fight against global terrorism." "The Australian decision joins similar and important decisions of 17 other countries in the last two years that have realized that there are no separate wings to terrorist organizations," Lapid said. "This holds true for the terrorist organization Hezbollah — it is one body, and any separation between its wings is artificial...Read More |
Lately, Palestinian Arabic media have been making a bold claim. Raia al-Youm writes, Even before its establishment in Europe, the Zionist movement used to claim that Palestine is the "Promised Land" and that the Jews are "God's chosen people." And the heresy of Jerusalem as a "completely Jewish city," invaded the Western world, which eventually led the former US President, Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Jewish people, and ordered the transfer of Washington's embassy in the entity to occupied Jerusalem. In this context, the famous Israeli archaeologist Israel Finkelstein (72 years old) from Tel Aviv University, once again appeared to dismantle these allegations, denying the existence of any connection to the Jews in Jerusalem, as he put it. Al Quds goes further: Israeli archaeologist Israel Flinckstein said that no one has found any Jewish antiquities in Jerusalem and that the archaeological excavations have not foiund a single Jewish article, and that what was discovered confirms that Jeruaalem is not Jewish and that all Talmudic claims are myths that were marketed for...Read More |
In light of the British declaration that all of Hamas is a terrorist organization, Hamas has been responding with statements that claim that their attacks on Israeli civilians are legal under international law.
Hamas' press release in response to the news story said, "We believe that resisting the Israeli occupation with all means possible, including armed resistance, is a guaranteed right for peoples under occupation as per international law."
This was two days before a Hamas terrorist murdered Eli Kay in Jerusalem, and Hamas' "political wing" praised the murder. Hamas has consistently claimed that all terrorist acts - suicide bombs, bus bombings, rocket attacks, shootings, stabbings, car rammings - are really acts of legitimate armed struggle.
That claim is made often by apologists for Palestinian terror. One prominent example is CJ Werleman's 2018 article titled "International law guarantees Palestinians the right to resist," which is entirely based on this claim: [I]nternational law is unambiguous in its endorsement of "armed struggle" for peoples who seek self-determination under "colonial and foreign domination." United Nations resolution 37/43, dated 3 December 1982, "reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence...Read More |
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