| A random example of the Amnesty report's dishonestynoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 08 Feb 05:45 AM I decided to choose a random page of the Amnesty I | | I decided to choose a random page of the Amnesty International's "Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians" report, just to see if I can find dishonesty on every page. Pretty much.
On page 73, Amnesty says: Palestinians on the other hand are treated by the Israeli state differently based on its consideration of them as having a racialized non-Jewish, Arab status and, beyond that, as being part of a group with particular attributes that are different from other non-Jewish groups. With respect to Palestinian citizens of Israel, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially classifies them as being "Arab citizens of Israel", an inclusive term that describes a number of different and primarily Arabic-speaking groups, including Muslim Arabs (this classification includes Bedouins), Christian Arabs, Druze and Circassians. However, in public discourse, Israeli authorities and media generally refer only to Muslim Arabs and Christian Arabs – those who generally self-identify as Palestinians – as Israeli Arabs and associate them with Palestinians living in the OPT and beyond, using the specific terms Druze and Circassians for those other non-Jewish groups. The authorities also clearly consider Palestinian citizens of Israel as a single group different from Druze and Circassians since they exempt this group alone from military service in "consideration for their family, religious, and cultural...Read More |
From Ian: The Palestinian myth explained and analyzed Even more imbecilic, why call themselves a name they cannot pronounce in their mother tongue? An English word derived from Hebrew, describing Greeks, then translated into Latin without any Arabic derivation and with such offensive definitions to their, albeit false history and culture. No, no, shout the offended Palestinians, we are called Filastinians, that is the Arabic word for us. Oh really, this disciplined researcher retorts in astonishment. But 'Filastine' is simply the Arab pronunciation of Philistine and therefore apart from one letter to conform with Arabic vocalization the Filastinians are still naming themselves after extinct Greek sailors or uncouth, uncultured heathens – and in Queen's English. You really couldn't make it up, it's Monty Pythonesque – that was a British comedy mocking absurd situations which were themselves exaggerated. Further investigation is surely necessary as it is patently imbecilic that supposedly, indigenous peoples should be satisfied with such negative and offensive definitions debunking all claims of indigenous ethnicity. So we research into the Filastinian historical archives in the expectation of discovering a people or persons who identified as indigenous Filastinian leaders or a war, battle or conflict fought by indigenous Filastinians against any domestic or foreign invaders throughput the centuries of warfare in their...Read More |
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From Ian: Amnesty International's Moral Turpitude Six years before British-Indian author Salman Rushdie had a $6,000,000 bounty on his head as a result of a fatwa (Islamic decree) for his "blasphemous" 1988 book, The Satanic Verses, he stated in 2010 that the NGO Amnesty International was in a state of "moral bankruptcy." He was referring to the organization's blatant surrender to the regimes and gangs practicing violent Islamism, as well as to its anti-Western, anti-American and anti-Israel sentiment. He could say the same today, in light of the report that it released on Tuesday. The 211-page report, issued by Amnesty's U.K. branch, is an indictment of the Jewish state. It's a document that deems Israel's existence, not merely its policies, as an illegitimate, colonialist and racist entity. Indeed, for Amnesty, the Jewish state wasn't based on the self-determination of a population returning to its ancestral homeland—necessary for the Jewish people's very survival—nor even for defending itself, tooth and nail, against a bloody stream of terror perpetrated by armed movements seeking its destruction. Indeed, the document is a disgrace to an organization with a record of battling on behalf of communist dissidents or apartheid—the real one, in South Africa. Along with its systematic failure to denounce human-rights abuses in Syria, Iran and Turkey, and repeated calls to take action against the...Read More |
One can read the interview of Amnesty's Philip Luther at Times of Israel over and over and keep seeing new levels of hypocrisy from the organization. TOI: I still can't understand why Israel gets the apartheid investigation, and you haven't found any other country besides Myanmar within four years that deserves it. It seems not to bother you – maybe it does bother you – that the UN, which is not your organization, that every year there are permanent and recurring condemnations automatically, and not [against] other countries in the same way, not even close. That would seem to me to be… Luther: How many other countries have a fifty-year occupation? TOI: Is that the only human rights violation? Luther: No, I'm saying that it's a metric. You're saying, is there not something very specific about the Israeli and Palestinian situation? If people ask about the singularity of the situation, that is singular. This year will mark 48 years of Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus. True, it is not quite fifty, but if occupation is a metric that merits Israel being singled out for opprobrium, certainly we should be seeing Amnesty take at least a passing interest in Turkey's occupation of Northern Cyprus? All the horrible things that Amnesty and other "human rights" groups are warning will happen with Israel's "occupation" of the West Bank - that hasn't happened...Read More |
From Iran's ABNA news agency: The head of Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement's Executive Council ruled out any possibility for Lebanon to normalize ties with the Zionist regime of Israel. Referring to some media speculations about the issue as fake and misleading, Syed Hashim Safi Al Dinsaid (Safieddine) said. "We will never accept Lebanon's move on that path," Al-Ahed News reported. He said those talking about normalization seek to stop the activities of the resistance in the name of saving the country. That's a hell of a statement. He's saying that the survival of an extra-governmental terrorist army is more important than the very survival of Lebanon! He also claimed that "orders came from the kings and princes that everyone must follow the path of normalization" but the proud Lebanese people would never do it: "How could they want the resistance front's fighters, families of martyrs and Lebanon's noble people to join those who shamefully normalized relations with the Israeli regime?" Then comes the real punchline: Safieddine also said that...Read More |
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