| Jordanian/Palestinian columnist, former member of Parliament, openly rooting for Russia to win. Because Ukraine is "Zionist."noreply@blogger.com (Unk | | Hamada al-Farana is a columnist who is a former minister of Jordanian parliament and has been a member of the Palestinian National Council since 1984.
He wrote in Jordanian site Ad Dustour, copied elsewhere, that a Russian victory in Ukraine will be a defeat for Israel and the United States. We sympathize with the people of Ukraine for two reasons: first, because its president, Vladimir Zelensky, is a Jew-Zionist who has implicated his people in a battle serving the interests of the United States and against the interests of his neighbor Russia, and secondly, because the people of Ukraine will pay the price for these destructive adventures. Russia's victory is a defeat for the colony [Israel], and Russia's defeat is a victory for the American-Israeli camp. It is beginning to appear that the at least some Arabs wanted to wait to see who is more likely to win before openly choosing sides. * * * * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at...Read More |
From Ian: Jewish Ukraine Fights Nazi Russia The Russian bombardment of the Kyiv television tower, which is located near the Babyn Yar memorial, was reported to have hit a part of the ravine inadvertently. The television tower stands right above the killing fields, overlooking the location of the memorial. There was no attack on the memorial complex itself, but the symbolism was hard to ignore. Zelensky called on world Jewry to "wake up to the threats posed by Russia's invasion," adding that "Nazism is always born in silence." A translation of his speech into Hebrew was soon uploaded to the presidential Facebook page. The statement had as much to do with geopolitics as it did with his personal identity—Ukrainians have become frustrated over the past week with what they see as Israeli diplomatic equivocation, regardless of the evident needs of Israeli security, which must take into account the Russian military presence in Syria. Zelensky had never seemed to me, including the one time that I discussed the issue with him over dinner, to be particularly comfortable with deploying or inhabiting his Jewish background in public. Despite the fact that Ukrainians enjoy pointing out his national success as an indication of a lack of antisemitism in the country—and the fact that his Jewishness was not a liability during the 2019 presidential campaign—it felt to me like his uncertainty...Read More |
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When Western bigots castigate Israel for its Law of Return that accepts Jews as immigrants, it is usually accompanied with something like "but Israel bans Palestinians who lived there for hundreds of generations to return to their homes."
But in Arabic, the media that is upset at the potential of thousands of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants don't mention the Palestinian issue. They simply don't want Jews to live in the Middle East, period.
Hawra Kobeissi's essay which was published today in multiple news sites only says that Israel tries to take advantage of world crises to encourage Jews to immigrate for demographic reasons. One of her examples is the huge effort Israel expended in spiriting out only a few dozen Yemeni Jews over the past ten years, which pretty much disproves the demography theory - that is hardly a great return on investment if Israel was only interested in increasing its population.
Palestine Today has a survey of Arab analysts on the issue of Ukrainian Jewish immigration...Read More |
From Ian: FDD: Iran Approaches the Nuclear Threshold The flawed premise of the JCPOA and of the Biden administration's Iran policy is that Iran can both keep its uranium enrichment program — which the JCPOA allows to expand again starting in 2024 and to grow substantially from 2027 to 2031 — and be kept away from the nuclear weapons threshold.32 Instead of pursuing a defective and temporary accord, the United States should seek to restore the international consensus — embodied in successive UN Security Council resolutions from 2006 to 2010 — that the world cannot trust the Islamic Republic with an enrichment program.33 The regime's relentless stonewalling of IAEA investigations demonstrates its bad faith. Furthermore, an energy-rich country like Iran has no economic need for an enrichment program. The purpose of Iran's enrichment program has always been to build nuclear weapons.34 If and when the United States and the E3 (Britain, France, and Germany) recognize the need for a fundamental rethinking of their Iran policy, they should relaunch the kind of comprehensive economic, financial, and political pressure campaign that forced Iran back to the negotiating table during Barack Obama's tenure. This time, however, the campaign should persist until Tehran accepts the dismantling of its enrichment program and related measures to permanently cut off all pathways to a nuclear weapon. The...Read More |
The College of Business Administration at the University of Bahrain held a "Middle East Conference" on March 2 and 3 with the participation of a number of business schools in the Gulf countries.
But they didn't say ahead of time that one of the speakers was from Tel Aviv University.
The Kuwaiti delegation found out about this terrible thing, and they withdrew from the conference - although apparently not before taking this photo that was clearly from the very end of the lecture. I don't know whether the Israeli withheld his affiliation until the end - it seems doubtful since the PowerPoint uses a template where every page would have said that it was from Tel Aviv University.
The Kuwaitis are saying that their withdrawal causes damage to the Israelis, when in fact no one really cares what they do.
But there was one valid reason to leave this lecture.
No one should ever use the Comic Sans font for any reason whatsoever. * * * * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: For the Jews, history repeats itself in Ukraine Putin is seeking to reverse the identity of neo-Nazis and their victims by channelling the myth of the Soviet fight against German Nazism. But this too is built on a distortion of history. After all, the Soviet Union was initially an ally of Nazi Germany through the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. World War Two was launched against Europe in 1939 by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany together. Subsequently, Russia did mount a heroic defence against Germany which helped win the war. Putin is manipulating this fact to present a staggering inversion of reality to justify his unprovoked aggression and brutality. Now where have we heard this before, where the victims of an attempt to erase them from the map are themselves accused falsely of genocide? Well of course, this is precisely what the "Palestinians" have done to Israel. For decades, they have promoted the big lie that they are the indigenous people of the land, that the Jews were the colonisers who deprived them of their rights and that the Israelis continue to oppress and practice "genocide" against them. Every part of that is not only untrue but it is the "Palestinians" who seek aggressive conquest and the Israelis who are victims of their terror. This big lie about Israel was created in the 1960s when the "Palestinian" terrorist leader Yasser Arafat made common...Read More |
Yesterday, this was widely reported: Saudi Arabia's powerful crown price and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman has said that the kingdom does not look at Israel as an "enemy," as he called for "coexistence" between Saudi Arabia and Iran. "For us, we hope that the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is solved. We don't look at Israel as an enemy, we look to them as a potential ally, with many interests that we can pursue together. But we have to solve some issues before we get to that," Bin Salman said in an interview with U.S. magazine The Atlantic, according to an English-language transcript published by the official Saudi news agency SPA.
Perhaps the most important part of this is the fact that this was published by the Saudis themselves.
The Atlantic article did not have this quote. The transcript came from the official Saudi news agency. Which means that the Saudis weren't playing the game of "tell the Western reporters what they want" - they went out of their way to ensure that the world saw this message that Israel and Saudi Arabia are not enemies and have a lot of similar goals.
The audience for this statement is the Arab world, the Saudi people and Iran, which he also said he desires good relations with.
Four years...Read More |
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Here is every statement by PA president Mahmoud Abbas since Russia invaded Ukraine:
Condolences to former National Assembly Speaker Salim al-Zanoun (Abu al-Adeeb) on his sister's deathCondolences to the parents of a teen killed during a violent protestCongratulations to the Emir of Kuwait on their independence dayCondolences on the death of a "brigadier general" in GazaCongratulations to the Dominican Republic president on their independence dayCondolences to a "major general" on the death of his sonCongratulations to the president of Bosnia and Herzegovina on their independence dayA meeting with UNRWA representatives and affirming the importance of that organizationCongratulations to the president of Bulgaria on its independence day
Not a word of concern, let alone condemnation, of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Likewise, the Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs has been completely silent about Ukraine.
The PA prime minister Mohamed Shtayyeh didn't completely ignore Ukraine in his statements. Last Friday evening, he called the Palestinian envoy to Ukraine to check on the safety of 2500 Palestinians there. And during his normal weekly cabinet meeting, he said that he is monitoring the developments there and that many Palestinians managed to escape.
As the entire world condemned Russia, the PA has remained silent.
Silence is assent.
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