| Apartheid Alert: Israel helping Gazan economy (again)noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 23 Feb 05:45 AM From the Jerusalem Post: Palestinian exports of | | From the Jerusalem Post: Palestinian exports of scrap iron from Gaza are slated to double now that a new iron-shredding machine, the second of its kind, has been placed at the Kerem Shalom crossing. "Following work with many offices on both the Palestinian side and the Israeli side, the new iron-shredding machine has begun operating," said the head of Israel's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration's Economic Department Aviv Hindi. "This addition will make possible a doubling of iron scrap exports from the Gaza Strip, will give employment to many Gazan residents, and will provide for the economic welfare of many families," he said. "It is all part of a civilian policy that we have recently been advancing, on the understanding that civil stability leads to stable security." Each machine has a monthly output of some 6,000 tons of iron, allowing for a monthly profit of more than NIS 2.5 million per machine. Which means that Israel is bringing millions of dollars a year to the economy of the sector whose leaders swear they will destroy Israel.
Sounds like apartheid, doesn't it?
But wait, there's more:It's part of a number of steps to ease Gaza restrictions taken by the office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, headed by Maj.-Gen. Rassan Alian.Major General Rassan Alian is not Jewish. He is Druze.
Wow, the harder you look, the more apartheid you...Read More |
From Ian: The Naqba dynamic: A sobering analysis of Arab-Jewish relations LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD
Israeli Nobel Laureate author Shmuel Yosef Agnon, writing in the aftermath of the Arab pogrom in 1929, described reality: "Among the people of Talpiot [in Jerusalem] were many [Jewish] optimists who said the Arabs would never come into Talpiot; after all, many of them earned their living there…On the way we met some Arabs, from their faces we could see they had come to loot. [Someone] asked if he should kill them. Krishevsky said NO! We all knew that if it had been the other way around they would have done the opposite." In a scenario of an all-out violent struggle, the state of Israel will gain the upper hand. Its security resources and experience, national will and moral urgency, will outweigh any combination of Arab grievances, guns, and an impulse to foment turmoil. When de-escalation fails, new rules will prevail. Israel may then set a strategic goal to turn the corner in this lengthy and bitter conflict, and not be limited to just riding out the storm as a transient altercation. Were the Arabs cautious in assessing the balance of forces, they would stop short of pushing the process to the end-point. When the aggressor loses, as in the 1948 Nakba debacle, he has only himself to blame. WHO WILL GO?
The PLO Covenant from 1964, in Article 6, recognizes the right of Jews to stay in liberated Palestine on the condition...Read More |
by Daled Amos I recall listening to my rabbi speak on Shabbos -- years ago, when I was just a kid. In order to illustrate a point, my rabbi mentioned an article that a German actor, dressed as Hitler for a movie he was appearing in, went out on the street in character. According to the report, the actor was astounded at how Germans on the street came up to him and greeted him warmly. I looked online for some record of this, but did not find it. What I did find was an article from 2015 about a different German actor and his experience when he went out in public as the Nazi dictator: An actor dressed as Hitler on the streets of Germany was begged to bring back labour camps, kissed and made to feel like 'a pop star' - casting an uncomfortable light on growing support for right-wing extremism in the country. Oliver Masucci plays the Nazi leader in 'He's Back' ('Er ist wieder da'), a biting social satire by author Timur Vermes which was released in German cinemas this week. From the preview on Youtube, it was clear that while no one could have been fooled into thinking that the Nazi dictator had actually returned, there were clearly a lot of Germans who would not pass up the chance to be seen with him. ...and thought there was...Read More |
From Ian: Amnesty International's Problematic Israel Report Eugene Kontorovich, director of the Center for the Middle East and International Law at George Mason University Scalia Law School, believes "there is clearly a coordinated campaign by far-left NGOs to mainstream the apartheid accusation, with an eye o[n] getting it adopted and 'made official' by the ICC [International Criminal Court] and the UNHRC." Kontorovich continued, "Having a U.N. agency, even a discredited one like the UNHRC, accuse Israel of apartheid will certainly give diplomatic momentum to those who seek to destroy Israel." Herzberg sees Amnesty's report as "timed to feed into a March 2022 report where U.N. Human Rights Council Rapporteur Michael Lynk will accuse Israel of apartheid, which in turn will serve [as] the basis for the Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry on Israel levying of the charge. They also hope their reports will influence the ICC to indict Israelis for a crime against humanity." Schanzer said, "This [report] was designed to be ammunition, and it will be." Schanzer concluded, "All of this could potentially build in a dangerous direction." That direction isn't an entirely new one. This effort recalls the United Nations' declaring in 1975 that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination." While the United Nations finally repealed that resolution in 1991, Soviet-style anti-Zionism lives on...Read More |
Earlier this month, a new Palestinian law was published that granted president Mahmoud Abbas powers to issue or revoke the red diplomatic passports pretty much at will, with no regard as to whether the recipients are diplomats or not.
In essence, it is yet another way to control his people.
Indeed, yesterday Abbas revoked the diplomatic passport of his Fatah rival Nasser al Kidwa, who is a former Palestinian envoy to the UN and also former foreign minister - pretty much the definition of a diplomat. But Kidwa created a rival faction within Fatah last year, so he is an enemy of the Palestinian dictator.
Kidwa even said that it makes no sense for him to go through the Palestinian judicial system to protest...Read More |
Palestinian prime minister Muhammad Shtayyeh thanked the the Constitutional Court in South Africa, which - he claimed - ruled that anti-Zionism is not considered anti-Semitism.
He said, "We demand that the rest of the countries adopt this decision as a reference and a legal precedent."
The court said no such thing. It ruled that in some circumstances, it can be clear that an anti-Zionist statement can be antisemitic, and it obliged someone whose antisemitism was couched in "anti-Zionist" terms to apologize.
I read the full ruling. It attempts to balance the imperatives of free speech against those of combating hate. Although I cannot find the full submission, the ruling...Read More |
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