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Where are the stories of Ukrainian civilians victims?noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Feb 06:00 AM Whenever Israel is forced to defend itself from Like   Tweet   Where are the stories of Ukrainian civilians victims? noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Feb 06:00 AM Whenever Israel is forced to defend itself from Hamas rockets, the media falls over itself to show the "human face" of the "horrors of war" - with detailed descriptions of how Palestinian civilians have died. Sometimes these civilians aren't really civilians. Often they were used as human shields, with Palestinian terror groups hiding behind them in (and under) apartments. I've documented literally hundreds of cases of Israel targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders and the victims are either their relatives or people hosted in their houses. Some of the victims are killed by terrorist rockets themselves, but the media blames Israel. Occasionally, the victims appear indeed to have been the victims of a tragic mistake that occurs during war. The media, pretending to care so much about the innocents, goes into detail on all of these victims. THe media always has a reason to give these details to their audience, and they always have a reason to avoid giving any context of how Hamas cynically makes it appear as if Israel was targeting children - a ludicrous and slanderous charge. Yet here we are days into a war where over a hundred civilians have been killed in Ukraine. If you dig hard, you can find out details about how they were killed. But there is none of the "victim porn" that Arab...Read More Not Russia. Not Iran. Ilhan Omar only supports sanctions against - Israel. noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Feb 03:00 PM Representative Ilhan Omar issued a statement earlier this month where she said she was against sanctioning Russia over its aggressive moves towards Ukraine in a proposed Ukraine defense bill: The proposed legislative solution to this crisis, escalates the conflict without deterring it effectively. With a very soft trigger, it vaults Ukraine overnight into the third highest recipient of U.S. security assistance and weapons sales in the world. The consequences of flooding Ukraine with half a billion dollars in American weapons, likely not limited to just military-specific equipment but also including small arms and ammo, are unpredictable and likely disastrous. It also threatens unbelievably broad and draconian sanctions that will utterly devastate the Russian economy, likely doing very little to deter Putin's aggression while causing immense suffering among ordinary Russian civilians who did not choose this. When Turkey invaded Syria, she was against sanctions then as well, and included sanctions against Iran and Venezuela in her denunciation: In the White House announcement on Oct. 14 of sanctions on Turkey, Trump said, "I am fully prepared to swiftly destroy Turkey's economy if Turkish leaders continue down this dangerous and destructive...Read More 02/27 Links: International law was supposed to protect Ukraine — it failed; What Israel Must Learn From Ukraine's War; Israel helped Lebanese, Syrian citizens reach Ukraine border noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 27 Feb 01:00 PM From Ian: Seth Frantzman: International law was supposed to protect Ukraine — it failed The lessons of appeasement led to democracies being more forthright in their demands that countries adhere to these norms. The Cold War, however, brought with a litany of new abuses and because the world was divided it was hard for countries to agree on international norms and enforcement. The concepts laid down by US President George H.W Bush during the Gulf war were designed to resurrect the rules-based international order. Although this international order has not been ideal, there have been attempts to make it work. That means the US intervened in the Balkans in the 1990s to stop ethnic cleansing. The US stumbled during the global war on terror, but the pretense of international law remained. In fact it is Russia that has often voices support for these norms in places like Syria, demanding the US leave Syria and claiming that it is Russia that stands by international norms, like soviergnn states and such concepts. Now Russia has torn up that rule book in an unprovoked attack on Ukraine. Russia didn't set any kind of ultimatum or red line before the attack. The excuse that Russia was concerned about NATO expansion holds no water, because Russia didn't even try diplomacy with Ukraine. Russia simply started bombing without any warning or pretense of why it was launch an attack. This shows that Russia didn't feel a need to...Read More Arab media: Israel "exploiting" Ukraine to save Jews. But they won't report that Israel is helping Arabs from enemy countries escape, too. noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Feb 11:00 AM Arab media is now permeated with stories like this healine from Al Jazeera: Adopting the employment of wars to promote settlement... An Israeli emergency plan aims to bring in 8,000 Jews from Ukraine. Since the emergence of the Zionist movement, the Israelis have exploited wars and conflicts in Europe, Africa and various parts of the world to recruit hundreds of thousands of Jews to replace the Palestinians. Because saving Jewish refugees is a war crime, or something. But they won't report on this: Israeli diplomats have been assisting Lebanese, Syrian and Egyptian citizens to evacuate from Ukraine, transporting them from the war-torn nation alongside Israeli refugees, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Sunday. A spokesman for the ministry stated that citizens of several regional states, including those currently in a state of war with Israel had boarded a bus organized by Israeli diplomats on the Polish side of the border and that the embassy is also ready to "help Israeli residents from East Jerusalem." Israeli Ambassador Michael Brodsky said that there were no conditions on Israeli aid to residents of Arab states, telling Haaretz by phone from Poland on Sunday afternoon that any assistance rendered was "purely humanitarian." Another Haaretz...Read More Kuwaiti columnist suspended for friendly tweets to an Israeli noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Feb 08:12 AM Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas announced yesterday that it had fired one of its opinion columnists for his support of treating Israelis as normal people. The newspaper tweeted, "Al-Qabas affirms its firm and steadfast stance towards the crimes of the miserable Zionist enemy, and its full support for the valiant Palestinian resistance. And it announces the suspension of one of the opinion writers who called for normalization with the Zionist enemy, on his social media accounts." The person suspended was Jassim al-Juraid. On February 20, Israeli journalist and Arab expert Edy Cohen tweeted that the self-declared "chief rabbi" of Saudi Arabia, Yaakov Herzog, invited Jews worldwide to spend Passover in the Kingdom, and that matzoh would be available. Cohen said that he hoped Jews worldwide would come and get to know Saudi Arabia, "the kingdom of peace and coexistence," and said,"God willing, my family and I will try to join." In response, Kuwaiti writer Jassim al-Juraid...Read More    ©2022 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company