| Terror groups very upset at UNGA for appointing Israeli as a VP. It's really funny to watch.noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 08 Jun 04:45 AM Israel's | | Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan was elected on Tuesday as a Vice-President of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
There are 21 vice presidents. It is not a big deal. And his predecessor, Danny Danon, also held the role one year.
But watching the terror groups and their fans freak out is a wonderful thing to behold.
Hamas issued a statement saying the appointment is an affront to the feelings of our people and to those who love peace and justice in the world. It also considered the appointment an affront to the international system Walid Al-Awad, a member of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian People's Party, said Erdan's appointment "contradicts the moral and political values stipulated in the Charter of the United Nations." Best of all was the PFLP terror group, which "considered that the appointment of the criminal representative of the Zionist entity to the...Read More |
From Ian: High and Low Israel Criticism When it comes to Israel, it's always the best of times and the worst of times. For the Jewish state, the sky's the limit—or else it's falling. According to its critics, Israel is on the verge of moral immolation, an apartheid regime living on borrowed time. Its boosters counter that Israel has never been stronger: The more the haters hate, the more peace agreements it signs with its Arab neighbors, and the more sophisticated the technology it develops and exports. It's as if the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea can only be viewed through a fun-house mirror. This schizophrenia finds expression in two recent books that read like they were written on different planets. Omri Boehm's Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel approaches Israel as a failed state and Jewish sovereignty as a moral obscenity. As Boehm, an Israeli associate professor of philosophy at The New School in New York, puts it, "True Israeli patriots must now challenge Zionist taboos as we have come to know them, must dare to imagine the country's transformation, from a Jewish state into a federal, binational republic." If Thomas Jefferson believed that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," then Boehm believes that sometimes you need to cut the tree down altogether. Yossi Shain...Read More |
The blog at Israel's National Library put out an interesting post: Just as Jewish merchants moved between Jerusalem, Damascus, Halab, and Beirut during the days of the Ottoman Empire, citizens of Mandatory Palestine – both Jews and Arabs – continued to visit their northern neighbors while living under British rule. The local tourist industry in particular, flourished during this period. Lebanon was considered a fascinating and attractive destination: its southern shores, the vibrant metropolis of Beirut and the beautiful snow-capped mountains – a rare sight in the Middle East. The Hebrew press and bulletin boards were filled with advertisements appealing to the Jewish readers to come and relax in Lebanon. They show advertisements to visit Lebanon, Syria and Transjordan: Jewish tourists were so desirable that Lebanese hotels competed by offering kosher food: I found this 1932 article in the Palestine Bulletin about a successful trip to Lebanon and Syria: The YWHA sponsored many of these trips, and also went to Egypt (1933): It is possible for Israeli Jews to visit two of those countries, at least. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it...Read More |
You know how far-Right antisemites like to churn out graphics that show that Jews are at the center of the media, or the pharmaceutical industry, or the banks? Well, here's the "Mapping Project:" [A] project created by activists and organizers in eastern Massachusetts, investigating local links between entities responsible for the colonization of Palestine, for colonialism and dispossession here where we live, and for the economy of imperialism and war. To them, the Anti-Defamation League is at the center of...policing and lots of other supposedly evil things: Same energy.
Some of the organizations that they consider to be Zionist/racist are obviously aimed at Jews. For example, here are some of who they are targeting as being recipients of funding from the Klarman Family Foundation: The American Jewish Committee (AJC)
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Facing History and Ourselves
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA)
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston
Gann Academy The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston Inc.
Jewish National Fund (JNF)
Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA)
Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America: $1,500,000 from FY17-19
Washington Institute on Near...Read More |
From Ian: UN blames Israel for conflict with Palestinians, to probe discrimination Israel is largely to blame for its conflict with the Palestinians, the United Nations charged in the initial report by its highly contentious Commission of Inquiry, which plans to focus in part on issues of discrimination by the Jewish state both within and without the country's sovereign borders. "The findings and recommendations relevant to the underlying root causes were overwhelmingly directed towards Israel, which we have taken as an indicator of the asymmetrical nature of the conflict and the reality of one state occupying the other," Navanethem Pillay, who heads the three-member panel that conducted the probe, said. Pillay is the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The UN's report
The brief 18-page report by the UN's "Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem and Israel" posted on the UN website on Tuesday marks the first of what will be an annual report to the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva. The report spoke of Israel's actions in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem as a situation "in perpetuity," noting that It was unlikely the situation would end without International intervention. "The commission notes the strength of prima facie credible evidence available that convincingly indicates that Israel has no intention of ending the occupation...Read More |
Here is a video from Jenin journalist Ali Samoudi which he uploaded to Facebook only minutes before Shireen Abu Akleh's death. Abu Akleh was killed at about 6:30 AM. This video was uploaded to Facebook at 6:22 AM. (Update: See below, the video was uploaded to Telegram around 6:15.) You can hear at least 9 loud gunshots (and 4 that might be echoes or might be more distant gunshots) in the 17 seconds of the video. Those 9 gunshots are clear enough, and loud enough, to indicate that they were shot from the same rooftop as the camera. The video shows the spot that Abu Akleh was going to be killed. Here is the scene from the video, showing where the landmarks are on the map. The video was taken from roof of the building on the right; the tree that she was in front of is on the left in this Mapillary photo: This sniper did not kill Shireen Abu Akleh. He is only 75 meters away from her, and we know that the gunfire that killed her was about 180 meters away from the intersection near her. But we can learn a great deal from this video nonetheless. It proves beyond the witness testimony we have seen so far that there were indeed Palestinian snipers on the roofs of buildings in Jenin. It proves that at least one of these snipers were much...Read More |
The New York Times published an editorial on June 3 that broadly implied that Israel purposefully murdered Shireen Abu Akleh by cherry picking facts (and highlighting a truly stupid statement by Israeli military spokesperson Ran Kochav.) After noting that the Palestinians blame Israel and Israel admits that there is a chance that it was Israeli fire that killed her, and quoting CNN's bogus "investigation" that ignored crucial facts and trusted "eyewitnesses" who are anything but reliable, the "Paper of Record" implies that Israel wanted to silence Abu Akleh: The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the United States would do well to agree on an independent investigator to determine who shot Ms. Abu Akleh and establish whether she was a target because of her work as a journalist. It is nothing short of slanderous to say that Israel intentionally murdered Abu Akleh. I've already described in detail how, when all the evidence is viewed, it is highly likely that she was killed by Palestinian fire. The only people with guns who were close enough to Abu Akleh to have fired the shots consistent with the audio forensics evidence were Palestinian terrorists - both a group caught on video to the southeast...Read More |
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