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A far higher percentage of Israeli Arabs vote for Zionist parties than there are American Jewish anti-Zionistsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 31 Oct 0 Like   Tweet   A far higher percentage of Israeli Arabs vote for Zionist parties than there are American Jewish anti-Zionists noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 31 Oct 04:45 AM We have seen that surveys over the past few years have found that between 3%-6% of American Jews identify themselves as "generally not pro-Israel," a much more general term than "anti-Zionist" which has not been asked as a question of American Jews. This means that the percentage of American Jews who actively identify as anti-Zionist (a much higher bar than "generally not pro-Israel") is diminishingly small - certainly less than than 6% but probably far less than that number, perhaps as low as 1-2%. Yet anti-Israel Jews like to present themselves as a large minority with huge influence in the Jewish community. The strenuously argue that they are not fringe, but mainstream - even though they have little evidence of it. What I'm about to say is definitely comparing apples and oranges, but the comparison is still worthwhile. In the four most recent Israeli Knesset elections, between 12% and 28% of Israeli Arabs voted for Jewish Zionist parties. In the last election, 5.2% of the Arab vote went to Likud, and 3.2% to Yisrael Beiteinu. The rest were divided up between Meretz (3.8%) and a remaining 8% divided among other Jewish parties. In the North, about 25% of Arab voters voted for Jewish parties;...Read More The @NYTimes mirrors its 1991 biased coverage of the Crown Heights pogrom noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 30 Oct 02:30 PM The New York Times today has an article, "How the Hasidic Jewish Community Became a Political Force in New York." It mentions the 1991 Crown Heights pogrom, but it describes it in ridiculously evenhanded terms that don't reflect reality: The Hasidic community began to carefully build relationships with elected officials, starting in the 1950s, when Rabbi Teitelbaum found common ground with Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. A pivotal moment came in 1991 when the Crown Heights riots shook the city. The violence and chaos was almost unimaginable. Overnight, Brooklyn streets had turned into combat zones, pitting groups of Hasidic Jews against mostly Black men — some holding longstanding grudges over what they saw as the Hasidic community receiving preferential treatment from the police and the city. Racial and antisemitic epithets filled the air alongside hurled rocks and bottles. So I looked up the original coverage by the New York Times of the rioting, and this very close to what their original article, on August 21, 1991, had claimed: Hasidim and blacks clashed in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn through the day and into the night yesterday as the two communities, separately and bitterly, each mourned a member killed, one in a traffic accident on Monday night and the other stabbed in the racial melee that followed. Bottles, rocks and ethnic slurs were hurled as hundreds of police officers struggled to separate the screaming, taunting groups near the headquarters of the Lubavitcher...Read More 10/30 Links: Will US-Russia policy give Iran the bomb and kill the Abraham Accords?; Caroline Glick: Jewish sovereignty is on the ballot; Academic anti-colonialism can distort Jewish history noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 30 Oct 12:00 PM From Ian: Will US-Russia policy give Iran the bomb and kill the Abraham Accords? The Biden administration has been pursuing a reckless policy toward Russia that has far-reaching implications that threaten American, European and Israeli security; emboldens Iran; and undermines opportunities for expanding the Abraham Accords. That is a foreign policy trifecta disaster. Everyone understands President Joe Biden's reluctance to do anything that Russia might interpret as sufficiently threatening to escalate the conflict to war with the US He is calibrating the weapons supply by providing some weapons to defend itself and go on the offensive. He still stubbornly refuses to supply aircraft or long-range weapons that would allow Ukraine to hit targets in Russia. We have helped prevent Russia from overrunning the country but not enough to expel the invaders completely. The problem is that the fear of President Vladimir Putin using nuclear weapons is reinforcing their deterrent value to other nations, notably Iran. Why would anyone expect Iran to give up its nuclear ambition now? Even before the war in Ukraine, Iran was encouraged by the success of North Korea in holding the West at bay and keenly aware of the fates of the nukeless Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi. Even with a bomb, or several, Iran does not pose the same danger as Russia with its nearly 6,000...Read More "Weed Apartheid:" Israel now blamed for strict Palestinian anti-marijuana laws (update) noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 30 Oct 10:00 AM There is one overarching rule that both the antisemitic Right and Left share: everything is always the Jews' fault. A truly absurd example can be seen in an article in The Intercept today, accusing Israel of "weed apartheid" because Palestinians under Palestinian Authority rule have different laws than Israelis under Israeli rule. Really. In the dusty occupied hills west of the Jordan River, segregation shapes the smoking experience of Palestinians as much as every other aspect of Palestinian life. For Israelis, the police's relaxed attitude toward weed carries over to the occupied West Bank. Rather than face military justice, Israelis living in Jewish West Bank settlements are protected by an entire legal system built on inequities so rife that it has contributed to Israel being accused of the crime of running an "apartheid" system. The disparity in treatment for Palestinians and Israelis when it comes to cannabis constitutes a facet of this system that might be called weed apartheid. A Palestinian and Israeli breaking the same law in the same place in the West Bank, for instance, will be dealt with by different security forces and processed in different legal systems. This is of course not true. A Palestinian in Area C lighting up with an Israeli will not have to worry about going to Palestinian jail, because Israel is responsible for security there. Writer Jesse Rosenfeld spends a lot of...Read More Hezbollah says that the maritime border dispute is not over - and never will be noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 30 Oct 07:19 AM The maritime border agreement (indirectly) signed between Lebanon and Israel last week is not really a final agreement, according to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. In a speech he gave last night, Nasrallah showed a map of the various positions and said that there was still an area of about 2.5 square kilometers - demarcated by a line of buoys that Israel had insisted would be their border - that are still claimed as Lebanese by Hezbollah. He still claims the additional 876 square kilometers "liberated" as a great victory, but says that the total should be closer to 879 square kilometers. This is practically the same tack that Hezbollah too after the UN drew the Blue Line between Israel and Lebanon. Even though Israel withdrew behind that line, Hezbollah still claims small areas that the agreement gave to the Israeli side, and uses that as justification for maintaining a huge arsenal of weapons and rockets. Not only that, but Nasrallah, in his speech, encouraged the Lebanese to pressure their government to re-assert their rights to Line 29, the current maximal position they made up during the negotiations that has no legal basis. He says if Lebanon decides that Line 29 really is the border, then Hezbollah will "struggle" to achieve that. Nasrallah also claims that Lebanon - meaning Hezbollah - was on the verge of declaring war against Israel when it was about to start...Read More    ©2022 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company

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Palestinians in Hebron celebrate the murder of a Jewnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 30 Oct 04:45 AM There was a heinous terror attack on Saturday nig Like   Tweet   Palestinians in Hebron celebrate the murder of a Jew noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 30 Oct 04:45 AM There was a heinous terror attack on Saturday night, as a Jewish man and his son went to go shopping at an Arab-owned convenience store. A terrorist shot at them, killing the father and injuring others, and he then shot and seriously injured the medic who came to help the injured. Here the terrorist is seen being mowed down by an Israeli security guard and then shot dead by another. A dead Jew is cause for celebration for the Arabs of Hebron. Sweets were handed out, fireworks were shot in the air and cars went out for an impromptu parade. Terror apologists love to say that Palestinians aren't antisemitic - they are merely exercising the right to "defend themselves. " Killing civilians isn't "defense." Celebrating the death of Jewish civilians is pure hate. And no one can credibly deny that these celebrations are antisemitism - a hate that the world tolerates from Palestinians. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More 10/29 Links: Biden Admin Probed Over 'Illegal Efforts to Undermine Israeli Sovereignty Over Jerusalem'; What the Kanye West scandal can teach the UN noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 29 Oct 06:30 PM From Ian: Biden Admin Probed Over 'Illegal Efforts to Undermine Israeli Sovereignty Over Jerusalem' A legal advocacy group says the Biden administration is violating U.S. law by funneling more than half-a-billion dollars to the Palestinian government and is demanding the administration release a slew of internal documents that the group believes will reveal an illegal effort "to undermine Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem," according to a copy of the Freedom of Information Act request provided to the Washington Free Beacon. America First Legal, a group of conservative lawyers and activists, hit the State Department this week with a FOIA request that instructs it to furnish a slew of internal documents about U.S. funding for the Palestinian Authority, which was frozen under former president Donald Trump but resumed when President Joe Biden took office. The legal group suspects that a portion of this taxpayer aid is being used to support Palestinian-led projects in Jerusalem that could undermine Israel's control of its capital city. The Trump administration recognized Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital, but the Biden administration, while formally upholding the policy, has moved to open a Palestinian Affairs unit in the city, fueling concerns that the consulate is working with the Palestinian government to erode Israel's sovereignty...Read More 10/28 Links Pt2: Jonathan Tobin: The painful truth about media bias: Some journalists lie; Mark Regev: Israel, the Suez Crisis and accusations of colonialist collusion noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 28 Oct 04:00 PM From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: The painful truth about media bias: Some journalists lie It also contributes to a situation in which people on both sides of the political aisle ignore arguments from their opponents, and—as another Times article pointed out—leads to Democrats and Republicans thinking that democracy is in peril. They just disagree about who is at fault. There are lots of reasons for this landscape. But to deny the responsibility of the media, and the way so many journalists lie for partisan reasons, is not only to fly in the face of the facts; it exhibits a failure to understand how and why our politics and our society are so broken. This atmosphere helps explain, at least in part, the rise of anti-Semitism and how it is being tolerated on both ends of the political spectrum. It reflects an over-the-top partisanship in a society in which few are willing to condemn political allies, even when they are guilty of blatant hate-speech. The same pattern applies to coverage of Israel and the Middle East. Though ignorance of the history of the region might seem to be at the root of the slant—since many editors and reporters simply don't know, for instance, that peace between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs might have been possible had the latter not consistently rejected any and all compromises throughout the century of the conflict—even relatively recent events are often...Read More Scratch Palestinian history, reveal antisemitism noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Oct 01:30 PM The PLO tweeted: As with everything else in Palestinian history, look beneath the surface and find antisemitism. The Catholic Advance wrote about this conference: Moslems and Christians - but no Jews. The Palestinians claim that Jews at the time were an equal minority but Jews were not invited to supposedly Palestinian nationalist conferences. And notice that the resolutions are ultimately about attacking the Zionist community, not about promoting Palestinian nationalism. Also notice: The Catholic Advance, as we will see later, clearly didn't think that Jews have any business living in Palestine. The Jewish Agency allowed women to vote way before 1929, but they don't count. The Women's Congress was scheduled right before the All-Palestine Arab Congress, which featured this: "All the natives of Palestine, irrespective of creed" - except for Jews. That's pretty much the definition of antisemitism right there (and one that this Catholic newspaper embraced.) * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More 10/28 Links Pt1: UN Watch: Rebuttal of Pillay Commission's Report to UNGA; From Gaza to Tehran: The challenges facing Israel's next government; Biden cannot ignore Iran noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 28 Oct 11:00 AM From Ian: UN Watch: Rebuttal of Pillay Commission's Report to UNGA In response to the October 2022 report to the UN General Assembly by the Pillay Commission of Inquiry on Israel, UN Watch published the following rebuttal, prepared by UN Watch Legal Advisor Dina Rovner. The fundamental failure of the report is that, contrary to its mandate to examine all sides in the conflict, the report examines and condemns only Israel. This follows the same completely one-sided format of the Pillay Commission's June report to the Human Rights Council. The report is not the product of an objective and impartial examination of all sides, but an adversarial charge sheet where Israel is painted as the only actor and the only guilty party. This latest report underscores how the Pillay Commission of Inquiry (COI) is a travesty of justice. Accordingly, UN Watch calls for the termination of the COI, and has drafted this resolution and petition to commence the process. Key Points 1. The Commission blames only Israel for the impasse in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and the lack of implementation of the two-state solution, pointing exclusively to the "occupation" and "settlements," ignoring the Palestinian' rejection of Israeli peace offers, including the 2000 proposal by Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the 2008 offer by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The report ignores Palestinian terrorism and incitement...Read More Terrorists always win the PR battle in a TikTok world noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Oct 09:00 AM Ambulances aiding victims of Elad terror attack There is one thing missing in all the media coverage of IDF operations in the West Bank. Why they are there. For years, the IDF rarely entered Area A. The Palestinian Authority took responsibility for security there, and they generally cooperated with Israel in rooting out terrorists - who were enemies of the PA as well. The system wasn't perfect, but it mostly worked, to everyone's benefit. But earlier this year there was a wave of terror attacks in Israel: March 22: Doris Yahbas (49), Laura Yitzhak 43), Rabbi Moshe Kravitzky and Menahem Yehezkel, (67) were killed and two more were injured during a stabbing and vehicle-ramming attack in Beersheba. March 27: Yezen Falah and Shirel Abukarat, two Border Police officers, were shot dead by two terrorists. March 29: Amir Khoury (32), Ya'akov Shalom (36), Avishai Yehezkel (29), Victor Sorokopot (38), and Dimitri Mitrik (23)were killed during a series of drive-by shootings in Bnei Brak. April 7: Tomer Morad (28), Eytam Magini (27), and Barak Lufan (35) were shot dead at a downtown Tel Aviv bar , seven others were wounded and hospitalized. April 29:Two Palestinian terrorists murdered Vyacheslav Golev (23), a security guard, at the entrance to Ariel. May 5: Boaz Gol (49), Yonatan Havakuk (44), and Oren Ben Yitfah (35) were killed in a terrorist attack in Elad. Most (if not all...Read More When "Israelis killed Palestinians in cold blood!" changes to "Heroic Palestinians martyred while attacking the Zionist enemy!" noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Oct 07:00 AM Two Palestinian Authority security services members were killed this morning near the Huwara checkpoint as they shot at the soldiers there. Whenever incidents like this happen, before a terror group takes responsibility, Palestinian media (and even other terror groups) first respond by claiming that the IDF shot innocent civilians in cold blood. Islamic Jihad called it a "cold blooded execution." PA prime minister Mohamed Shtayyeh called it "a heinous field execution committed by the occupation forces." Then as more information started coming out that they were involved in an attack, the tenor of the responses changed. The...Read More    ©2022 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company