| The State Department didn't deny Israeli natural gas will go to Lebanonnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 Jan 05:00 AM Israeli media reported: Israe | | Israeli media reported: Israel has signed an agreement to indirectly pump natural gas to Lebanon to aid the crisis-hit nation, an unsourced television report claimed on Saturday. Channel 12 news reported that the deal was brokered by Amos Hochstein, Washington's special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs, and signed in secret over the weekend. It will see Israel transfer gas from the offshore Leviathan field to Jordan, the report said. From there it will be transferred to Syria and on to Lebanon. However, the network said, the move will require repairing and extending a gas line that flows from Syria to Lebanon, which could take several years. The agreement was approved by the United States and was also coordinated with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the report. Since this sort of thing makes Arabs who hate Israel go crazy, the US State Department tweeted a denial - that wasn't a denial. Naharnet adds: The Lebanese Ministry of Energy affirmed, for its part, that the natural gas is Egyptian, denying the media reports as well. The natural gas from Egypt will be used to generate electrical power to the Lebanese who are currently living with only...Read More |
From Ian: David Collier: Wikipedia butchers history and promotes terrorism – part 1 A stream of content-empty, repetitive books is included – but there is no entry for the blood-curdling cries of the Arab leaders. Abdul Rahman Azzam, the Arab League's first secretary-general, said that the establishment of a Jewish state would lead to "a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacre and the Crusades.". Wikipedia editors obviously believe that the horrific and murderous ideology promoted by Arab leaders is not as worthy of mention as books that almost nobody bothered to read. And looking at anti-Zionism today, nothing has changed. All around us we see violent threats, and antisemitism spreading through anti-Zionist thought. The false image that anti-Zionism has a friendly, peaceful face may be all you will see on the page, but as Bret Stephens pointed out in the NYT not everyone got the memo:
"Not the people who, waving Palestinian flags and chanting "Death to Jews," according to a witness, assaulted Jewish diners at a Los Angeles sushi restaurant. Not the people who threw fireworks in New York's diamond district. Not the people who brutally beat up a man wearing a yarmulke in Times Square. Not the people who drove through London slurring Jews and yelling, "Rape their daughters." Not the people who gathered outside a synagogue in Germany shouting slurs. Not the...Read More |
Photo from Abu Ali Express Times of Israel reports: A Palestinian man was shot dead as he attempted to stab soldiers at a bus stop in the central West Bank on Monday, the Israel Defense Forces said. No Israeli injuries were reported. "The assailant got out of a car, armed with a knife, and tried to stab an IDF soldier," the military said. The soldier opened fire at the man, killing him, according to the IDF. The knife was recovered at the scene. Troops launched a search to find the car that transported the assailant to the scene, setting up roadblocks in the area. A short while later, the driver of the vehicle turned himself in to Israeli security forces, the Defense Ministry's Civil Administration said. The Palestinian Authority always takes the tack of "Israel killed him unjustly." Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned in two separate statements the Israeli army killing of a Palestinian man near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. Faleh Jaradat, from the Hebron area town of Sair, was shot and killed this afternoon after he allegedly attempted to stab a soldier at an intersection near Bethlehem. The soldier was not hurt. Shtayyeh called on international human rights organizations to pressure Israel to stop the killings and ongoing attacks on the Palestinian...Read More |
From Ian: Bari Weiss: Being Jewish in an Unraveling America American Jews have always told ourselves that we were different because this country was different—that it was exceptional. That the equivocation about Jew-hate that we are now witnessing was normal in other places but never would be so here. (I think of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish woman who was beaten and thrown out of her Paris window by a man screaming "dirty Jew" and "Allahu Akbar." But French courts and much of the press decided that no motive could be ascertained. Ultimately, charges were dropped against the perpetrator because he had smoked weed before the murder.) But America will only remain exceptional if Americans fight for it. And very few people in positions of cultural and political power seem to have any will to wage that battle. They believe that we are not the land of freedom, the country that abolished slavery, but one where slavery persists in more subtle form. That our army is not a force for liberation, but oppression. That our courts are not fair and blind, but prejudiced. And that this country and our ally, Israel, are not democracies but bastions of racial supremacy. Today is Martin Luther King Day and I'm thinking of his understanding that the demand for equal treatment comes at no one's expense because justice is not a zero-sum game. "We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of...Read More |
In 2017, a census was taken that showed that the number of Palestinians in Lebanon was 174,422.
UNRWA says that over 479,000 Palestinian "refugees" are registered with UNRWA in Lebanon.
Which means that most of those "refugees" left Lebanon - but UNRWA still counts them.
Now, The National notes that the numbers are diminishing further:
In the past two years, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have been migrating at significantly higher rates in search of better work opportunities and a better standard of living. Lebanon's economic situation tightens its grasp on citizens and foreigners alike, said Abdelnaser Elayi, project manager at the inter-ministerial Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee. "Before 2020, we would usually see about 6,000 to 8,000 Palestinians leave the country without returning, per year," Mr Elayi told The National "Now, those figures are closer to 10,000 to 12,000. That is an increase by at least 30 per cent." If his numbers are right, that means that about 40,000 Palestinians have left since the census! While between 30-50,000 Palestinians fled from Syria to Lebanon with the Syrian civil war, most of those would have been counted in the 2017 census and many cannot stay long because they have to renew their visas every three months...Read More |
Today is Tu B'Shvat, the traditional New Year for Trees. Israel haters like to pretend that this is their holiday, and associate it with environmentalism, or climate change, or whatever else they can pretend to associate with it. One "Jewish Voice for Peace" event says "The event will include a group reading from Jews, Palestinians, and other activists as we acknowledge and mourn the ongoing suffering endured by Palestinians from the founding and expansion of Israel." and pay special attention to the million olive trees allegedly destroyed by Israel when building the separation barrier.
(Little reported is that when Israel uprooted those trees they replant them on the Palestinian side.)
As usual, the haters are trying to hijack something that is not only Jewish, but distinctly Zionist.
The original mention of Tu B'Shvat is in the Mishnah. The date that was designated as the "new year for trees" is meant to calculate the age of trees in the Land of Israel for various halachic reasons as to when the fruit of a tree is allowed to be eaten and for various tithes.
It only applies to the Land of Israel.
Later, the kabbalists instituted a "Tu B'Shvat seder" where they would ascribe symbolic meaning to fruits and trees...
...but only those fruits and...Read More |
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