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Celebration in Beirut of Bnei Brak attack
Al-Araby, which is based in London, and Egyptian Al Masry al-Youm, both briefly mention that "Following the attack, mosques in the West Bank and Gaza Strip raised the takbir, to celebrate the operation in Tel Aviv.""Raising the takbir" means publicly praising Allah, usually in the form of "Allah hu-Akbar."
Imagine the outcry if a synagogue of any denomination would blast out of loudspeakers (or publish in its weekly newsletter) joy and praise at the murder of civilians. It would be a major news item. The foremost critics would be Jews themselves.
And rightly so.
Yet, today, it isn't only Palestinian youths celebrating the murders of five people. It is their mosques - mosques that are run by older, respected men.
Where is the outrage from Muslims worldwide? Where is the horror at sacred mosques being used as places to celebrate terror? Where are the hand-wringing articles, in any language, saying that the Muslims who use Islam to celebrate death aren't "real Muslims?" Where are the social media posts that show disgust from religious Muslims at their faith being hijacked by immoral worshipers of death?
This is not to say that there are no Muslims horrified at these attacks - there certainly are. But the fact that...Read More |
Here is how Al Quds described the celebrations in the hometown of the terrorist who murdered 5 Israelis on Tuesday: Jenin, its camp and the town of Yabad witnessed, this evening, Tuesday, massive rallies to express pride in the perpetrator of the Bnei Brak operation near Tel Aviv, the martyr Diaa Hamrasha. Our correspondent in Jenin stated that the celebrations included the distribution of sweets in celebration of the operation, and that as soon as the occupation announced that the martyr Hamrasha a was from the town of Ya'bad, hundreds of the town's residents went to his house. They staged a sit-in in front of the martyr's family's house and congratulated them, while calls and statements of Hamrasha's death were broadcast via loudspeakers and praised his operation, and confirmed the continuation of the resistance approach. In the city and camp of Jenin, hundreds celebrated the operation, with massive rallies during which sweets were distributed. According to Palestinian sources, the Hamrasha family did not receive any official notification about the death of their son, which was published by the Hebrew media. It is reported that Diaa is a freed prisoner and was arrested on charges of belonging to the Fatah movement and currently...Read More |
From Ian: Five killed in Bnei Brak terrorist shooting Five people were killed in a shooting spree in Bnei Brak on Tuesday evening. The shooting was first reported around 8:00 p.m. on HaShnaim Street. One person was found killed in a car and two other people were killed on a sidewalk nearby. Another person was found dead on Herzl Street, perpendicular to HaShnaim Street. A fifth victim, a police officer, was evacuated to the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in critical condition and died from his wounds soon after. The shooter's body was found on Jabotinsky Street after he was shot by a police officer who arrived at the scene on a motorcycle. Another person was arrested at the scene and investigated on the scene on suspicion of assisting the shooter, and a third person was arrested later on further east on Jabotinsky Street. The terrorist was a 27-years-old man affiliated with Fatah, from the village of Ya'bad in the northern West Bank. He was jailed for half a year in 2015 for illegal arms dealing and belonging to a terrorist group, and had worked illegally at a building site in Bnei Brak.Roman Abramovich, Ukrainian negotiators poisoned in Kyiv talks - WSJ reportRussian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich and three Ukrainian negotiators in the ceasefire talks were allegedly poisoned during a meeting in Kyiv in early March, Netherlands-based...Read More |
By Twitter user @mike_bomb On Twitter Monday, in response to the Negev Summit, veteran peace-processor Aaron David Miller re-upped his September 23, 2020 Washington Post op-ed in which he purported to review old assumptions about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Re-reading the piece illustrated for me how much he—along with the rest of the peace-processors—still gets wrong. He mentions a few of the old assumptions, the first of which is that "The status quo is unsustainable." He correctly notes that it very possibly is sustainable, but his reasoning that "The parties themselves have been willing to manage the status quo, however grim it may be, because changing it required more political risk than either side was willing to accept…" is flawed. Israel has time and again demonstrated that it is willing to take the political risk to change the status quo, offering peace plans to the Palestinians who never accept and never come back with a counter-offer. In the absence of a Palestinian leadership willing to take political risk, Israel has no choice but to manage the status quo, regardless of their own political risk tolerance. It has to be reiterated: the Palestinian side has never made a serious peace proposal or a counter-offer to an Israeli proposal. Most often, they simply refuse to negotiate. At one point...Read More |
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The latest poll from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) shows that while Hamas' popularity is decreasing, that isn't indicating any less support for violence.
Fatah's popularity reached the levels it had before the May war, which was very popular among Palestinians. Surprisingly, part of that may be because the people are approving of the "confidence building measures" that Israel has agreed to with the Palestinian Authority, like increasing family unification and allowing the PA to access more cash. 63% approved of those measures.
Even so, 67% support the suspension of the PLO recognition of Israel and 61% support the decision to end the implementation of agreements with Israel including security coordination.
When asked what strategy they support going forward, 52% supported return to armed confrontations and a violent intifada. When asked specifically what the most effective means of ending the "occupation" and building an independent state, a plurality of 44% chose "armed struggle, "far ahead of 25% for negotiations and 24% for "popular resistance." This is a small increase supporting violence compared to the last poll three months ago.
As far as which side they are on in the Ukraine invasion, things are fairly split. 43% blame Russia for starting the war with Ukraine while 40% blame Ukraine.
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From Ian: Gadi Taub and Michael DoranIsrael Must Publicly Protest America's Policy of Appeasing Iran The excessive desire to maintain a semblance of cooperation with the administration has led Israel to adopt the empty talk about a "longer and stronger" accord. The reigning assumption is that if the appearance of intimacy is maintained, Israel will be able in the future to employ quiet diplomacy in its efforts to persuade Washington, ultimately leading it to recognize its mistake and to turn from appeasement to deterrence – either directly, by American military means (or the threat to use them), or indirectly, by supporting Israel's operations. There is no chance of such a plan succeeding. After all, Biden believes in the nuclear deal. It is the cornerstone of his regional policy. He believes that conciliation will create a historic opportunity to reset U.S.-Iranian relations, directing them toward a cooperative future. Why should he step aside and allow Israel to sabotage a policy he's been working to promote? The conclusion from all this is that Israel cannot effectively act against Iran's nuclearization if it refuses from the start to engage in an open and sincere debate with its ally. It must develop a strategy of publicly protesting against America's policy of appeasement, while taking into account the reasonable likelihood that Iran will try to drag the...Read More |
By Daled Amos The reestablishment of the State of Israel represents, in part, the creation of a place for Jews to find refuge. This is all part of a promise that Israel continues to keep, whether accepting immigrants from Ethiopia, Russia -- or the Ukraine. Meanwhile, for his part, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan presents himself as the champion of Muslims around the world. And then there is Iran, which has also been positioning itself as a Muslim world leader: Since its 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran has engaged in a number of scuffles with countries over their mistreatment of Muslim minorities, diplomatic tiffs that have aimed to position Teheran as a guardian of supposed Islamic world unity. Yet both Turkey and Iran stop short in their support of their fellow Muslims when it comes to China. There are approximately 12 million Uyghurs, Chinese Muslims, of whom approximately 2 million have been detained in detention camps by the Chinese government. In July 2019, a group of 22 nations addressed a letter to the president of the UN Human Rights Council and to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...Read More |
The New Zealand Jewish Council is releasing a survey of antisemitic attitudes in that country early Wednesday morning NZT. As with similar surveys done over the past decade, a series of questions are asked to tease out whether the respondent has antisemitic and anti-Zionist opinions. The survey found a high correspondence between those who have the most anti-Zionist views and those who have the most classical antisemitic views: Twenty one percent of New Zealanders held two or more classical antisemitic views (out of eight questions), and 25% held two or more Zionophobic views (out of seven). This survey found there is a relationship between those holding Zionophobic views and those who hold classical antisemitic views. It shows the more extreme anti-Israel sentiment someone has, the more classical antisemitic tropes they will believe in, and vice versa. For example, there is only a 25% chance that someone who holds four classical antisemitic views will hold no anti-Israel antisemitic views, and only a 29% chance that someone who holds four anti-Israel antisemitic views will hold no classical antisemitic views. This is consistent with a United Kingdom study which also showed a clear empirical link between the two forms of antisemitism. I had seen the high level results of the UK survey but hadn't seen that analysis of the link between classic...Read More |
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