| Ramadan lanterns: Palestinians hate Jews so much they try to steal cultural heritage of Egyptnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 07 Apr 04:40 AM Here's a | | Here's a short article in the official Palestinian Wafa news agency accompanied by a video that claims that the tradition of lighting lanterns in Ramadan comes from "ancient Jerusalem:" In the past, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque was lit with lanterns, and the people of ancient Jerusalem used to carry them to light the way in the streets and alleys of ancient Jerusalem, until the acquisition of lanterns became a sacred heritage and tradition. To this day, Jerusalemites are still keen on acquiring lanterns to decorate homes, shops, streets and alleys, in celebration of the blessed month of Ramadan. This is completely false. The tradition of lanterns (fanous) on Ramadan is universally regarded to come from Egypt, itself based on pre-Islamic Egyptian traditions. The Palestinian lie serves two purposes. One is to claim being a separate people before Zionism, which they certainly weren't by any standard of peoplehood. The other is to bolster their claim to Jerusalem, a city that was widely ignored by the Arab world before the 20th century, as an "ancient" Palestinian city. The only reason for this is to deny the truly ancient Jewish roots of Jerusalem. There is no such thing as a uniquely Palestinian culture that pre-dates Zionism. The Arabic Wikipedia...Read More |
From Ian: Where's the apartheid? While the Nation-State Law of Israel recognizes the country as a homeland of the Jews, Amnesty's claims about Israel's relegating services to only Jews are false. Israeli Arabs have countless opportunities to be successful as Arabs in Israel. There are many examples to prove Amnesty wrong but let me summarize a few: Arab men can volunteer in the army, and Arab females can do civil service. The working staff in most of the pharmacies across Israel are Arabs. The Arab town of Kafr Qara, which is located to the southeast of Haifa, holds the highest rates of doctors and graduate degrees in the entire country. I personally witnessed a Muslim doctor in Jerusalem who was providing medical services to Jews and witnessed many products in Israeli grocery stores that are made by Muslim Arabs, including meat and poultry that offer kosher slaughter to Jews. On linguistic and religious grounds, Hebrew and Arabic are the official languages of Israel and non-Jews freely practice their religion. The use of the Arabic language in public facilitation, traffic signs, government services, transit systems, and even private shops cannot go unnoticed by any visitor to Israel. Hebrew is not forced on Israeli Arabs and Palestinians. Perhaps Amnesty should survey Syria, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, and North African countries that host minorities to see if they are free to study by their mother...Read More |
Delegates to the San Remo conference in Italy, 25 April 1920
People are always saying that the Holocaust is the reason and justification for the creation of the Jewish State. I find this a terrible concept. The Jewish nation has no need for justification in getting our land back or having self-rule. The land was ours thousands of years before the Holocaust took place, and if you don't believe in God, we can back that fact with ancient texts and artefacts. And yet people of every stripe, from President Obama on down to the Holocaust survivors themselves, continue to say that the Jewish State was created on the ashes of the Holocaust. It is quite fair to say that without the Holocaust, those fleeing Europe would have had no place to go. There is nothing dishonest in saying so, and in fact, in my opinion, it is a fine thing to thank God that Israel exists. And still, we would have had this state, in one form or another, with or without the Holocaust. The State of Israel was a done deal all the way back to San Remo, as stated by Salomon Benzimra, P. Eng. Founder Canadians for Israel's Legal Rights (CILR): Ninety five years ago, prime ministers, ambassadors and other dignitaries from Europe and America gathered in the Italian Riviera. Journalists from around the world reported on the pending San Remo Peace Conference and the great...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal Summer Weather Comes to Israel The weather has finally turned warm here. It seems like we skipped spring and went straight to summer. Along with the heat and the haze come incitement and terrorism, which will very likely develop – as it did last year at this time – into war and insurrection. Last month saw three high-profile terror attacks inside the Green Line, in which 11 people were murdered (including Christian Arab and Druze police officers, and two Ukrainian workers). Fatah\* and Hamas praised the terrorists, and as usual sweets were distributed in Gaza and weapons fired in the air to commemorate the success of the "operations." Significantly, two of the three terrorists were Israeli Arab citizens. The events of last year began with demonstrations at the Temple Mount in support of the Arab families in the Shimon Hatzadik (Sheikh Jarrah) neighborhood who were to be evicted for non-payment of rent (they are still there, thanks to the Israeli Supreme Court). When police entered the Mount to confiscate stockpiled weapons, violent clashes ensued. Hamas issued an "ultimatum," and then began...Read More |
From Ian: Israel's coalition loses majority as Yamina MK Silman quits government Prime Minister Naftali Bennett stated that MK Idit Silman had been threatened by supporters of opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Religious Zionist head Betzalel Smotrich until she "broke" and left the coalition on Wednesday. "Idit was persecuted for months, verbally abused by supporters of Bibi and Smotrich at the most horrific level," said Bennett on Wednesday evening. "She described to me the threats against her husband Shmulik's workplace and her children in Bnei Akiva. She broke in the end." The prime minister stressed that the "main thing we need to deal with at the moment is stabilizing the faction and the coalition." Bennett added that all the leaders in the coalition are interested in continuing the current government. "There is an opportunity here to take this event, learn from it and correct the gaps that have been created," said Bennett. "The whole government was founded on maintaining the status quo - and not on making sharp movements." Bennett warned that the alternative to the current coalition is more elections and possibly multiple rounds of elections, "back to the days of dangerous instability for the State of Israel." Silman said that she "could not take it anymore," and that she could not continue undermining the Jewish identity of the State of Israel, a reference to a disagreement she had with Health...Read More |
Father Manuel Musallam, a prominent Palestinian Christian priest, was quoted as wanting Palestinians to use "weapons" to defend Jerusalem - and he was not speaking metaphorically. Speaking as a member of the Committee for the Defense of Islamic and Christian Sanctities, Musallam said today that "every weapon that does not ululate for the sake of Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Nativity, is suspicious, and we must defeat it." He added, "By normalization, the Arabs will sign with Israel the defeat of the Islamic conquest and the fall of Umar's Assurance, and that Palestine is no longer the land of the Arabs, and that Jerusalem is not the Arab capital." Musallam has a history of antisemitic statements. In a 1993 rally in Jenin, where the Oslo Accords were framed as a means to eventually wrest all of Israel from Jews, he received a seven minute standing ovation after saying: From the gate of Al-Aqsa the herald cries:
"The Crescent and the Cross are the marks on my hands!"
God is greater than the enemies
Who occupy the Dome of the Rock and crucify us. But he's just anti-Zionist, right? (h/t Ibn Boutros) * * * * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book...Read More |
The term "Jew cooties" was created by Meryl Yourish in 2005 to describe how Arabs and Muslims would treat anything remotely associated with Jews or Israel as dangerous and infectious. (Ironically, her first example - of Dubai rejecting Israeli medical equipment - no longer applies.) The Observer General of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Abdul Hamid Al-Thneibat, just issued a statement saying that "the Islamic movement will carry out its duty and play its role in confronting normalization with the Zionist entity and containing its repercussions, and immunizing our Jordanian people and the peoples of the nation from being penetrated by its thought, awareness and culture." Thneibat bitterly complained, "During the past months, we have rushed into projects of normalization with the occupation through the water and electricity exchange agreement, and a number of leaders of the occupying entity have desecrated the pure land of Jordan." The Muslim Brotherhood of Jordan is really afraid of infection by Jewish thoughts, Jewish culture and anyone treating Israeli Jews as human beings. It is reminiscent of Nazi antisemitic propaganda that...Read More |
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