| Palestinian MPs oppose legislation to give equal rights to women - even though it is a sham to begin withnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Mar 04:45 | |  |
The Palestinian legislature is planning to pass a law based on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW.)
The PA has been a signatory of that convention since 2014, but it hasn't actually put it into law. When pressed, it does what it always does - it blamed the "occupation."
When no Westerners are listening, Palestinians freely admit that the only reason they joined the Convention and other international conventions (without reservations, showing that they barely read them to begin with) was to make it easier to join the International Criminal Court and therefore attack Israel via lawfare.
Palestinians never had any intention to enforce the convention that they signed.
Apparently, the international community has noticed this and it can turn into a source of embarrassment. The Palestinian dictatorship decided to have its cabinet pass a law that is congruent to CEDAW and to do it in a quiet way so that the right wing, Islamist opponents don't stop it.
Now, 41 Palestinian legislators have signed a crazy letter opposing...Read More |
From Ian: Bret Stephens: A New Iran Deal Leaves Us Meeker and Weaker Last year, Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised a new nuclear deal with Iran that would be "longer and stronger," hinting that it would seek to extend some of the JCPOA's sunset provisions that were set to expire in the next decade, as well as place limits on Iran's testing of ballistic missiles. It isn't clear the new deal will meet either goal. Reaching a kick-the-can-down-the-road agreement may seem like a diplomatic victory to the State Department. But it's a strategic defeat when it does little more than delay a crisis for the future in exchange for strengthening our adversaries in the present. Tehran attacked Iraq with ballistic missiles earlier this month and (through its Houthi proxies) launched missile and drone strikes on Abu Dhabi in January. What can Iran's neighbors expect from it when its coffers are refreshed with tens of billions in oil revenues, free from sanctions? The principal geopolitical challenge the U.S. faces today is the perception, shared by friends and foes alike, that we are weak, distracted and divided. The Biden administration urgently needs to telegraph strength. An Iran deal that leaves us even weaker and meeker than the previous deal accomplishes the opposite. (2) Iran's new fiscal year just started. In the regime's new budget, there's a 386% budget increase for the Shahid Ebrahimi...Read More |
Times of Israel reported two weeks ago: Turkey has agreed to return to Israel an ancient inscription from Jerusalem, currently housed in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, an Israeli official told Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel's Hebrew sister site. It is considered one of the most important ancient Hebrew inscriptions in existence. The gesture comes amid warming ties between Israel and Turkey and was discussed during the landmark visit of President Isaac Herzog to Ankara earlier this week, said a senior official in the Israeli entourage. Israel has long sought the return of the so-called Siloam Inscription, a 2,700-year-old ancient Hebrew text that provides concrete historical support for the biblical account of the construction of a tunnel which brought water from the Pool of Siloam to the City of David, below the southern edge of the Temple Mount, during the reign of King Hezekiah. This was widely shared, and it would be a big deal.
If it was true.
Immediately afterwards, the Daily Sabah, a site close to the Turkish government, denied this story altogether: Turkish officials denied reports on an Israeli website that the country would return an ancient inscription brought to Turkey from eastern Jerusalem during Ottoman rule. The...Read More |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. New York, March 24 - An activist campaigning for economic, cultural, diplomatic, and other measures against a Levantine country for its structurally-discriminatory policies against a significant minority within its borders, a minority that has suffered displacement for decades, on top of which the country's government lies under effective control of a violent ideological group at the root of so much regional unrest and suffering, had an epiphany today during which he understood he must target Beirut and those who underwrite its dysfunction if he wishes to address the primary injustice he sees in the world. Chico Howell, 25, of Midwood, Brooklyn, shared his realization Thursday with fellow activists, to some confusion and much anger. "They don't want to hear it," he discovered. "Like, our function as social justice advocates is to fight for the oppressed, and Palestinians in Lebanon face far more oppression from Hezbollah-run Lebanon than even their fellow 'refugees' under Israeli control - of which there are none under direct Israeli control, would you believe? I mean, I know lots of my colleagues like to define 'occupation' and 'control' flexibly, so that Zionists can be blamed whichever way you slice it, but have you seen the restrictions on employment...Read More |
From Ian: Lahav Harkov: What Zelenskyy got wrong about Israel In Israel, one of the most-shared videos in recent weeks shows a Ukrainian soldier named Alex revealing the contents of his military backpack. After waving his night-vision goggles at the camera, he pulls out a Ukrainian-language translation of Golda, a 2009 biography of Kyiv-born former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. Alex, who is not Jewish, explains that he intends to take the book with him into battle. He says his nickname is Zion, "because I am a Zionist". Golda Meir is very popular in Ukraine these days, with a version of her saying about Israel and Arabs still circulating on social media: "If Russia lays down its weapons, there is no war. If Ukraine lays down its weapons, there is no Ukraine." Yet in his speech to the Knesset on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy quoted a different Meir remark: "We intend to remain alive. Our neighbours want to see us dead. This is not a question that leaves much room for compromise." Had Zelenskyy continued in this vein, his speech may have had a warmer reception. Israelis, even those who weren't yet born in 1973, have a sense of what it's like to be attacked by larger armies who think their country should not exist. The Israeli army's ethos is largely about being a smaller, scrappier and smarter force that can successfully take on those who seek to annihilate us. So when Ukrainians...Read More |
Last year, the US State Department reinstated funding to UNRWA that wass cut during the Trump administration. But it added conditions to the funding, which included that UNRWA would uphold UN standards on neutrality in their school materials. The Framework for Cooperation between the US and UNRWA 2021-2022 includes: UNRWA commits to take all possible measures to ensure funding provided by the United States to UNRWA does not provide assistance to, or otherwise support, terrorists or terrorist organizations. Further, the United States and UNRWA condemn without reserve all manifestations of religious or racial intolerance, incitement to violence, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, including anti-Semitism, Islamophohia, anti-Catholicism, anti-Arabism, or other forms of discrimination or racism against Palestinians, Israelis or other individuals or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief. Priority activities for 2021-2022 to facilitate conformance with conditions on U.S. contributions to UNRWA are expected to include, but are not to be limited to:
■ Strengthening Agency oversight of its consistency with UN principles, which...Read More |
Felesteen cartoon celebrating the Beersheva attack
Arabs from the town of Hura, where the terrorist Muhammad Abu al-Kiyan was from, expressed horror at his act.
Haaretz and Times of Israel reports: The Hura local council quickly condemned the attack and dissociated itself from it, calling upon residents to help stem attempts at escalation. "This act represents only its perpetrator. Under our responsibility as elected officials, we condemn any violence, especially the murder of souls," said Habis al-Atauna, the mayor. "In the morning we sat, we talked, and we're in continual meetings with security officials and municipal leaders to bring calm." The family of the terrorist also condemned the attack: "We call upon the Israeli intelligence forces to closely monitor the content running wild online. There's content here entering our homes like drugs, and we have no control over it. We as Arabs in the Negev, if we have some criticism against the government or its policy, we act only in lawful ways. Any act of violence whatsoever is abhorrent." Hura mayor Habis Atawnah told The Times of Israel that schools and nurseries in the small town would devote hours of discussions to the violent attack by one of their...Read More |
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