| Israel allowing hundreds of Gazans to visit Al Aqsa and elsewhere for Eid al Adhanoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 08 Jul 04:45 AM Gaza media is announ | | Gaza media is announcing the times for buses to transport people to Jerusalem for Eid al Adha:
They will start at Rafah at 4:30 AM and take more passengers as they move northward through Gaza.
There are strict rules that the pilgrims must be over 50 for women, 55 for men, and they cannot take electronic devices and a list of other things. They must return to Gaza the same day.
Israel provided 400 permits to visit Al Aqsa, and 50 0permits to visit family members in the West Bank and Israel.
Israel made the decision based on things being currently calm in Gaza. It wants to reward ordinary Gazans when things are quiet - and when Hamas or Islamic Jihad shoots rockets, these benefits are taken away.
This is part of the reason Israel has been allowing workers' permits from Gaza as well.
Giving rewards for acting like normal human beings. What a concept! * * * * * * 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 |
From Ian: FDD: Twenty-Year Scars of the Second Intifada 20 years ago, on the first night of Passover 2002, the most infamous suicide bombing in Israel took place. That night, and the weeks that followed, marked a dramatic turning point in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians which still dictates the contours of the conflict today. Options for a political settlement that might have existed before, disappeared into a new reality. In March 2002 alone, more than 100 Israelis were killed in suicide bombings; hundreds more were injured. Sitting at a cafe, riding a bus, walking through an outdoor market became imbued with a feeling of danger. When Israel responded, protests against Israel erupted in all the major Western capitals, though there were few, if any, protests against the Palestinian suicide bombings. The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution calling for sanctions against Israel. International media coverage of the operation was overwhelmingly negative. The 1993 Oslo Accords were pitched to Israelis with a promise that they would improve security. And if that first promise remained unfulfilled - even after Israel recognized the PLO and carried out the withdrawals from Gaza and the West Bank as called for in the Agreements - then the whole world would see who the bad guys really were and stand by Israel. Neither promise was realized and this left...Read More |
Some accusations against Israel are so ridiculous, they can only be made at the UN Human Rights Council. Al Awda, the "Palestinian Return Center," said at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council that Israel was discriminating against Palestinians on religious grounds Speaking with the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, under the ninth item on the agenda of the 50th session of the Human Rights Council, they mentioned that Israel prevented those under the age of 50 from praying at Al Aqsa. Israel sometimes does this to minimize the chance of terror attacks, but there are plenty of men under 50 who visit al-Aqsa, like this very devout worshiper. Temple Mount Circus pic.twitter.com/ENQSFGovuq — Imshin (@imshin) July 4, 2022 "On the other hand, it allows Jewish settlers of all ages to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, amid provocative and racist expressions and insults against the Palestinians." The "racist expressions" are usually Biblical quotes. They also claimed that Palestinian Christians were subjected to religious discrimination too, as the Israeli forces recently prevented large numbers of them from celebrating Christmas in the city of Bethlehem. They didn't mention that this was in response to the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Al-Awda said that restricting worshipers' access to Islamic and...Read More |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Ramallah, July 7 - The sea change underway in the Middle East involving the acceptance and integration of Israel into a region once uniformly hostile to the Jewish State continues among numerous avenues, such as the reworking of educational materials in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia no longer to include antipathy for Jews, Jewish sovereignty, or Jewish interests in the form of the Jewish State. Palestinian education officials have seized all that suddenly-available Judeophobia and attempted to fit as much as possible into their textbooks in a curriculum that already features the most such material of any country, observers have noted. Deputy Minister of Education for the Palestinian Authority Wilqil Dajoussi acknowledged the phenomenon in an interview Thursday. "Over a very short period there's been a glut of anti-Jewish educational material released into availability," he noted. "It began subtly a few years ago when the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and several other Persian Gulf countries began normalizing with the Zionists, and the trend has continued. Riyadh seems intent on joining that group. Obviously, the Palestinian position is clear, and we're not in favor, but my focus is narrower: it's my job to make sure that the quantity of antisemitic materials...Read More |
From Ian: UNRWA Palestinian Textbooks Still Inciting Antisemitism and Jihadi Violence, Concludes New Report Educational material for Palestinian students provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) promotes jihadi violence and incites antisemitism, according to a new report by Israeli education watchdog Impact-se. Released on Thursday, the Review of 2022 UNRWA-Produced Study Materials in the Palestinian Territories found that the UNRWA curriculum describes Jews as "impure and inherently treacherous" and teaches that murdering Israelis leads to glory and martyrdom. The findings were made after UNRWA's maintaining several times that its curricula was purged of antisemitism. Examples included in Impact-se's findings include a grammar lesson that uses the sentence, "The Palestinians sacrifice their blood to liberate Jerusalem," and "Arabic Drill Cards" for 9th graders that say, "When the [Muslim] nation is negligent in protecting al-Aqsa, then the Jews will dare to defile it." Neither does Israel appear on any maps. Much of the material is "UNRWA branded," Impact-se continued, but it cannot be accessed through its online education portal and is essentially hidden from public scrutiny. "After a similar scandal last year, UNRWA promised that all offending material produced by them would be removed. It seems that...Read More |
In April 1921, British High Commissioner of Palestine Herbert Samuel met with Amin al-Husseini who assured him that he was supportive of British rule and would work hard to keep things peaceful. Samuel said:
I saw Haj Amin Husseini on Friday [April 8] and discussed with him at considerable length the political situation and the question of his appointment to the office of grand Mufti. Mr. Storrs was also present, and in the course of conversation, he declared his earnest desire to cooperate with the government and his belief in the good intentions of the British Government towards the Arabs. He (e.g. Haj Amin al-Husseini) gave assurance that the influence of his family and himself would be devoted to maintaining tranquility in Jerusalem and he felt sure that no disturbances need be feared this year. He said that the riots of last year were spontaneous and unpremeditated. If the government took reasonable precautions, he felt sure they would not be repeated. He was referring to the 1920 Nebi Musa riots which killed 5 Jews - and which Husseini had himself provoked.
Nevertheless, Samuel accepted Husseini's assurances and supported his appointment to the position of Mufti of Jerusalem.
Here is an account of the new Mufti's appearance at the Nebi Musa festival procession only two days later, on Easter Sunday, April 10:
Although we were less than a mile away from the place where the...Read More |
There have been some shocking murders of women in the Arab world recently, such as that of Nayera Ashraf, 21, stabbed to death in broad daylight in Egypt by a man whose marriage proposal she rejected, and Iman Arsheed, a Jordanian nursing student shot multiple times for similar reasons.
In response, women throughout the Arab world called a general strike for two hours on Wednesday to protest these and similar murders by a patriarchal Arab society.
In Gaza, dozens of women joined in the strike as well. But the rules are different in Palestinian ruled areas.
They had to add an anti-Israel angle.
Gaza's AISHA Association for Woman and Child Protection sponsored the protest. A speaker from that group said, "We in feminist organizations, women's rights organizations, and our allies announce our support for the cross-border women's strike campaign...Read More |
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