| Here are the world leaders Abbas has met so far in New Yorknoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 22 Sep 04:45 AM Ramallah News reports: Member of the Fata | |
Ramallah News reports:
Member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Osama al-Qawasmi, announced the agenda of President Mahmoud Abbas, while he was in New York, to participate in the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly. The goal of President Abbas's meetings before his expected speech is to expose Israel's crimes, to inform the international community in the latest developments, and to present the Palestinian vision for the solution and the steps that the Palestinian leadership will take. He pointed out that the Palestinian leadership held a series of round-the-clock meetings with heads of state, foreign ministers, and international institutions to put them in a picture of the situation and the political impasse it has reached. How successful has Abbas been so far in arranging these meetings? Here is a list of everyone he met with so far, as of Wednesday night: Ronald Lauder of the World Jewish Congress
The Prime Minister of Spain
The Secretary General of the UN
The head of the ICRC
The king of Jordan
The Foreign Minister of Norway
The President of Nigeria
The Foreign...Read More |
From Ian: Dara Horn: Why Democracies Are So Slow to Respond to Evil In his new series The U.S. and the Holocaust, the documentarian Ken Burns explores exactly how little America did to help Jews flee Hitler's Europe before and during World War II. Dara Horn writes in her review: The question of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's role in all of this has been fertile ground for historians for decades. Burns has a soft spot for Franklin and Eleanor, the subjects of one of his prior films, and here he treats them with kid gloves, blaming most of the missteps on State Department antagonists. The series makes a point of . . . showing Nazi rallies in New York, clips of the popular anti-Semitic broadcaster Father Charles Coughlin, and colorized footage of a Nazi-themed summer camp in New Jersey. But the film goes out of its way to outline the pros and cons of Roosevelt's decisions, leaving his reputation intact. To be clear, Roosevelt is an American icon and deserves to remain one. The problem with this approach is less about Roosevelt (there are plenty of convincing arguments in his favor, not least that he won the war) than about how it contradicts the rest of the film's premise. The goal of the series is seemingly to reset America's moral compass, using hindsight to expose the costs of being a bystander. But every bystander, including Roosevelt, can explain his...Read More |
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Vatikin—the sunrise prayer service—was a revelation. I'd thought about it before—about getting up at the crack of dawn to pray with the faithful on the High Holidays. And the idea held some appeal. I liked the idea that I'd be finished with the endless hours of holiday prayer way before the rest of my family. I've always been the sort of person who prefers to get things out of the way. I pictured it like this: I'd finish davening and be free as a bird. I could see myself in that space, in the afterglow of duty fulfilled. I could wiggle my toes and rest on the cool bed linen to rest until the afternoon meal. I also just liked imagining myself as someone who rushes to shul to beg for another year from God, the very moment when it becomes possible to do so. I liked seeing myself as a zealot, at least in this matter if not in others. But the idea remained something I toyed with only. Vatikin was for me, a vague temptation, but not an altogether persuasive one. My bed was too comfortable, the hour of departure too dark. I'd stay in bed rather than stumble about and wake everyone, possibly hurting myself in the process of getting to shulon time. The catch was that a seat in shul costs a hefty sum. And while our 12 kids are now grown, back then, finding a way to seat us all was a serious problem. You would have had to be a millionaire to pay for 14 seats. And so I decided to give the sunrise minyan a try, because the...Read More |
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From Ian: Biden at UNGA: 'Give the Palestinians State to Which They Are Entitled President Joe Biden told world leaders on Wednesday that the US is committed to Israel's security, "full stop" — but in his next breath advocated for citizens of the Palestinian Authority to be given "the state to which they are entitled." In his remarks to the United Nations General Assembly, Biden said, "We will continue to advocate for lasting, negotiated peace between the Jewish and democratic State of Israel and the Palestinian people. "The United States is committed to Israel's security, full stop. "And a negotiated two-state solution remains in our view the best way to ensure Israel's security and prosperity for the future and give the Palestinians the state to which they are entitled. "Both sides to fully respect the equal rights of their citizens. Both people enjoying an equal measure of freedom and dignity." Biden waited until the final ten minutes of his 81-minute speech to drop that bombshell. Saudis invite PA, not Israel to UN ministerial meeting on Arab Peace InitiativeSaudi Arabia hosted a closed ministerial meeting at the United Nations on Tuesday marking the 20th anniversary of the proposal of the Arab Peace Initiative...Read More |
Yesterday, a Palestinian man stalked and murdered an 84 year old Jewish grandmother in Holon. She was identified as Shulamit Rachel Ovadia. Israeli security services suspect that it was a terror attack, since nothing was taken from her.
The suspect, Mousa Sarsour from Qalqilya, was found this morning after apparently committing suicide, hanging himself in an abandoned Tel Aviv building. He had a valid work permit in Israel.
When attacks like these happen, the reactions (and non-reactions) from the anti-Israel crowd reveal a great deal. Palestinian terror groups are happy - but they pointedly do not mention the age of the victim. Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades describes the victim as "a Zionist usurper killed in a commando operation." Palestine Today, associated with Islamic Jihad, called her a "female settler."
More mainstream Palestinian newspapers understand that murdering an elderly lady is not something to be proud of. So they are instead...Read More |
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Yesterday, I reported that the Palestinian Authority arrested Mosab Shtayyeh, a commander in the Hamss Al-Qassam Brigades, in Nablus.
Coming after Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party has been taking responsibility for terror attacks itself, including attacks by its own security services, this move was simply an attempt to claim that the PA really opposes terror - so Mahmoud Abbas can make that claim ahead of (or within) his annual anti-Israel speech at the UN.
The arrest was also reportedly after intense pressure from the US and Israel for the PA to adhere to its own signed agreements to fight terrorism, not to contribute to it.
In my post, I predicted that by next week, we'll see that this was simply political theatre.
It seems that we don't have to wait for next week.
After massine riots in Nablus and Jenin, in which Palestinian security forces killed one protester, the PA caved to the terrorist supporters who wanted Shtayyeh released. At dawn today, after all-night negotiations with the rioters, reports say that the PA will release Shtayyeh...Read More |
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