| An Israeli taxi driver is nearly lynched in Nablus. Arab reactions are surprisingly mixednoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 10 Feb 05:45 AM An Israeli t | | An Israeli taxi driver decided to get his car repaired at an Arab shop near Nablus. That decision almost cost him his life.
In a terrifying video, you can see a crowd of Palestinian youths surrounded his car, smashed all his windows with large rocks (and a tire), stole his phones and tried to drag him out of the car. One tried to stab him. Al Marsd is a news site that is mostly read by Saudis. The reactions to the video at the site included many who were supportive of the Palestinian attackers. From Shabwah, Yemen, I dedicate my greetings and respect to these heroic men who taught this unclean pig a lesson that he will not forget. Those who defend the Jew, surely you are Jews like him But other voices entered the conversation who were shocked at the video, or used it as a reason to attack Palestinians: Palestinians are really terrorists. What is the fault of the taxi driver, may God curse them? [sarcastic] Hitting an unarmed elderly person who is running for a living by taxi... God bless the men of Hamas, huh, death to the old man and victory to Palestine. Palestinians are known for their barbarism and demagoguery all of them are ignorant, barbaric, Palestinians I hope after the video, Israel wipes out Gaza Young people with immature...Read More |
From Ian: The Surge in Holocaust Revisionism The Holocaust is back in the news but not in a good way. Whoopi Goldberg made sure of that. By wrongfully declaring that "the Holocaust isn't about race" she revealed the total lack of understanding that many seem to carry around with them. She apologized but the damage was done. Misinformation was the result of her bereft analysis. The Holocaust targeted the Jewish people. The Nazis sought the extermination of the Jewish race. They not only wanted to make Germany Judenrein but the entire planet. Holocaust revisionism has been surging of late and unless the Jews stand up and correct the problem it will only get worse. The leader of Holocaust revisionism today is not Whoopi Goldberg but the current Polish government. An article by Professor of history at the University of Ottawa, Jan Grabowski (1/30/22) makes this patently clear. He writes, "Poland's efforts to reframe history reflect a trend proliferating in other European countries to obfuscate the history of the Holocaust. In France the far right has made efforts to whitewash the record of the Vichy government, which collaborated with the Nazis." The Poles have taken it to a whole new level in an attempt to defend the "historical innocence of the nation." According to a Polish poll from 2020, almost half of Poles think that Auschwitz is most of all a place of Polish suffering despite the fact that that a million...Read More |
When I heard about the Whoopi thing, I thought, "She's right. The Jews are not a race." Five minutes later, my husband asked if I'd heard about the Whoopi thing. He said, "You know, she's right. We're not a race." Dennis Prager appears to agree with both of us. So no. It wasn't what Whoopi said about race that angered me. It was when she described the Holocaust as white people doing stuff to other white people, and worse yet, when she said (emphasis added): "Most of the Nazis were white people and most of the people they were attacking were white people. So to me, I'm thinking, 'How can you say it's about race when you're fighting each other?'" This is how Caryn Elaine Johnson alias Whoopi Goldberg describes the Final Solution. "Fighting each other." Tell me, Caryn. When was that? Because I missed that part of history. Was it when we were in the cattle cars? In the gas chambers clawing the walls? Being sent up in smoke? I am not at all convinced that "Goldberg" is ignorant of the meaning of her words. To describe Hitler's Final Solutions as "fighting each other" is worse even than blaming the victim. In Whoopi's mind, there is no difference between aggressor and victim, Nazi or Jew. To Caryn/Whoopi, all white people are just . . . white people. What they do to each other is no concern of hers. The Holocaust? Just white people fighting it out. Whoopi's description of the systematic extermination of millions of Jews as white people "fighting each other," reminds me those...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal The recent Amnesty International report which accuses Israel of apartheid and crimes against humanity is demonstrably dishonest, tendentious, and so lacking in context to be unworthy of serious consideration. Indeed, it has even been called "a paradigmatic example of anti-semitism [sic]." But this will not prevent its use as a weapon in the ongoing diplomatic and legal war being waged against Israel in the UN. As Anne Herzberg of NGO Monitor wrote, These groups [Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem]—through their personal connections and singular influence at the U.N. Human Rights Council, and the acquiescence of Europe—instead will simply get U.N. Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk and the Navi Pillay-headed Commission of Inquiry [COI] to uncritically adopt their claims and mark them with the U.N. stamp of approval in the next few months. Unsurprisingly and in keeping with his history of anti-Israel activism (as well as in violation of U.N. rules), although he is ostensibly currently conducting an independent and objective investigation of apartheid, Lynk promoted the group's report on Twitter. There is no doubt that the COI will act in a similar fashion. Here are a few of...Read More |
From Ian: The biggest lie of the decade A poll conducted in 2021 by "Palestine News Network" found that 93% of the Palestinians in East Jerusalem prefer to live under an Israeli government rather than a Palestinian one. This is the strongest answer to apartheid - even Palestinians themselves prefer the so-called "Israeli apartheid." Because they know the truth - they know that Israel is a paradise for them, where they can make the "American dream" come true. The ongoing efforts by Amnesty International and others to define the identity of Palestinians and Arabs living in Israel is nothing more than a colonialist effort to tell a minority how they should feel and who they are. I think that the Palestinian people and Israeli Arabs are smart, vibrant, and educated, and they do not need help defining their own identity. Amnesty International will probably never report on the real apartheid against Israelis. While Palestinians can freely enter Israel with the proper documents, I, an Israeli Jew, am banned from entering Gaza or other Palestinian cities. The last time a Jewish man entered Gaza, it didn't go very well. Avera Mengistu, an Israeli man, is being held hostage by the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza. It's time to put an end to the biggest lie of the century - Israel is not an apartheid state. It's true that Israel is not a perfect country, just like no country in the world is perfect, but the fact that international...Read More |
By Daled Amos It is nothing new for self-described experts in international law to join together to accuse Israel of evil. A year ago, critics came out of the woodwork to claim that Israel had an obligation, under international law, to provide free Covid vaccines for all of the Palestinian Arabs under the Palestinian Authority. They pointed to Article 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, claiming it proved that Israel, as an "occupying power" bore responsibility for public health. In his article, Fake International Law Is the Newest Anti-Israel Libel, Eugene Kontorovich pointed out that those making this claim overlooked -- or ignored -- the Oslo accords, which provide that the "powers and responsibilities in the sphere of Health in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip will be transferred to the Palestinian sides." He went on to explain that even on its own terms, the Fourth Geneva Convention would not apply. Kontorovich also noted that among those who mistakenly claimed that Israel was obligated to provide Covid vaccines were Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. HRW and Amnesty International? Those are the 2 "human rights groups," along with B'tselem, who are now twisting international law in order to accuse Israel of Apartheid...Read More |
From JTA, February 4, 1952: Maj. Gen. G.L. Nold, Deputy Chief of Army Engineers, told the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee that the Army considers it undesirable to hire American Jews to work on bases in North Africa because Jewish construction workers might offend the Arabs. For this reason, some 20,000 unemployed construction men in New York were by-passed for such jobs in Morocco and elsewhere. The New York State Employment Service said it would not screen out Jews, while officials in Minnesota cooperated with the Army's request, Gen. Nold said. A month later, the Secretary of the Army clarified matters - but they ended up being more muddied: Secretary of Army Frank Pace has written Sen. Herbert H. Lehman that recent statements of Maj. Gen, G. L. Nold concerning the desirability of eliminating Jews from among candidates for employment on overseas projects "were broader than the facts justified." The Secretary of Army wrote that contractors have not discriminated against Jews who seek work on Saudi Arabia projects, but that such Jews are automatically eliminated because the Saudi Arabian Government will not grant them the required visas. He added that it was possible that Gen. Nold, at the time of his testimony, was of the opinion that the same or similar difficulties...Read More |
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