| Israel haters lying with statistics, part 1: Arrest statisticsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 13 Nov 05:45 AM Someone named Laith Hanbali, of Al-Shab | |  |
Someone named Laith Hanbali, of Al-Shabaka -The Palestinian Policy Network, tweeted "Israel arrested 690 Palestinians in October. That's about 1 Palestinian arrested every hour for a whole month!"
Sounds awful, doesn't it? Over a 1300 people thought so.
This is where it is important to discuss innumeracy - mathematical illiteracy. Seemingly, most people cannot look at this statistic critically to realize how deceptive it is.
Let's start with another Palestinian source, Muetta, a Palestinian think tank that issues monthly statistics on "acts of resistance." They count 1,999 such acts in October. Some of them are vague like "resisting settler attacks" which could mean anything, but nearly a thousand of the events listed are potentially deadly - shootings, firebombs, stabbings, car rammings, stone throwing.
By their own count, Israel didn't arrest close to the number of Palestinians who were engaged in violent acts. And that number has increased a great deal this year.
Are 690 arrests a huge number compared to the number of attacks? Clearly not. If anything, this proves that Israeli arrests aren't arbitrary, and if anything they are not aggressive enough given the number of violent acts aimed towards the IDF and ordinary Israelis.
Given the number of Palestinians, is 690 arrests excessive? On the contrary. The number looks positively puny compared to the number of...Read More |
From Ian: Lapid slams UN, calls pro-Palestinian vote 'prize for terrorist organizations' Israel lambasted the United Nations on Saturday after a key committee approved a draft resolution Friday calling on the International Court of Justice to urgently issue its opinion on the legal consequences of supposedly denying the Palestinian people the right to self-determination as a result of Israel's actions since the 1967 Six-Day War. The measure was vehemently opposed by Israel, which argued it would destroy any chance of reconciliation with the Palestinians. "This step will not change the reality on the ground, nor will it help the Palestinian people in any way; it may even result in an escalation. Supporting this move is a prize for terrorist organizations and the campaign against Israel," Prime Minister Yair Lapid said in a statement, adding that "the Palestinians want to replace negotiations with unilateral steps. They are again using the United Nations to attack Israel." The vote in the General Assembly's Special Political and Decolonization Committee was 98-17, with 52 abstentions. The resolution will now go to the 193-member assembly for a final vote before the end of the year, when it is virtually certain of approval. The draft cites Israel's supposed violation of Palestinian rights to self-determination "from its prolonged...Read More |
From Ian: New York Times' fraught history covering Jews, Israel draws fresh backlash amid report on Hasidic schools The New York Times said last month that a string of investigations – some which were accused of being "politicized hit piece[s]" against Jews – is a part of its "financial success" strategy, adding to a long list of controversy of what some critics have alleged is an "anti-Jewish animus" at one of the nation's leading papers. Former New York Times executive editor, Dean Baquet, announced an investigative journalism fellowship he would oversee that was inspired by the apparent "financial success" of investigations on Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn, among others. Dean Baquet, former executive editor at The New York Times, announced an investigative journalism fellowship inspired by controversial stories published about Jews. The announcement referred to a front-page spotlight article the Times published in September which claimed Jewish private schools were "flush" with government cash and failing their children. "What's clear is that the NYT is not interested in positive value for our schools, just spreading lies for clicks," Simcha Eichenstein, a NYS Assembly member, who represents a Brooklyn Hasidic Jewish community, said. Activists – including international human rights attorney Brooke Goldstein – derided the "politicized hit piece...Read More |
The JC reports: In the shadow of the UAE's elaborate Grand Mosque and its white marble spires, interfaith representatives from across the world are gathered to listen to, of all people, a rabbi. It is a scene that would have seemed unlikely a few years ago, and at times impossible. In the ballroom of Abu Dhabi's Ritz Carlton, among the chandeliers, dates and gold, Chief Rabbi Mirvis made an unprecedented address to the audience of hundreds of Islamic scholars and leaders. The first UK chief rabbi to ever visit the Emirates, Rabbi Mirvis was welcomed to the Abu Dhabi Peace Forum by its president, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, a revered Islamic scholar. Addressing the crowd in a mixture of Biblical Hebrew, Arabic and English, Rabbi Mirvis called on leaders of all faiths to "achieve the unachievable" and build on the historic peace brought about by the Abraham Accords two years ago. Over 7000 km away, another kind of interfaith gathering happened recently - in Morocco: After a forced two-year hiatus linked to the pandemic, the emblematic Atlantic Andalusian Festival returned this year for its 18th edition. President and Founder of the Essaouira Mogador association, André Azoulay, adviser to King Mohammed...Read More |
From Ian: How to defeat the PLO and UNRWA Below is a list of doable steps that will make all the difference:
1. Recognize the new paradigm: Fatah can no longer be defined as a "partner for peace."
2. Neutralize COGAT (Israel's Civil Administration), and its blind protection of the PA and UNRWA.
3. Present PA and UNRWA Indoctrination as a primary factor in the war on Israel.
4. Since the PBC (Palestine Broadcasting Corporation) continues to incite, close all Israeli government frequencies used by the PBC.
5. Define PA and UNRWA schools as warlike entities that deserve no support.
6. Reinstate? oversight of all texts and teachers? in PA/UNRWA education.
7. Advocate the repeal of "Pay for Slay" legislation as a condition for aid
8. Disarm all Palestinian Arab entities, including the PSF, trained by US and Israel.
9 Arrest anyone who pays killers who have ?carried out acts of murder.
10. Encourage confiscation of all funds set aside by the PA to pay salaries for life to anyone who kills a Jew.
11. Organize conference of the descendants of the Dalal Mugrabi 1978 terror attack, where 35 Jews were murdered. Dalal is lionized by the PA and in UNRWA education.
12. Advocate harsh conditions in jails for terrorists, because current terror cells have turned into summer camps and universities.
13 Commission new films of UNRWA and PA SCHOOLS. Seeing is believing.
14. Oversee all funding to PA and UNRWA: Demand accountability for...Read More |
By Daled Amos President Joe Biden called Netanyahu to congratulate him on his victory, as he returns to serve as prime minister of Israel. It only took a week, but a lot was made of the fact that a number of world leaders lost no time in contacting Netanyahu to wish him well, while Biden -- who likes to brag about his friendship with Bibi -- seemed to be deliberately delaying his congratulations. And maybe he was. In February 2021, CNN reported that Biden took his time after winning his own election before contacting Netanyahu -- and that was because Netanyahu had taken his time contacting Biden on winning the election in 2020. And so it goes. But we are told that Biden and Netanyahu are actually good friends -- after all, Biden tells us so himself. He has claimed that he once gave Bibi a photo inscribed with the words: "Bibi I don't agree with a damn thing you say but I love you." Whatever that means. During Biden's last visit to the Middle East, he visited Israel and met with Netanyahu, even though he was no longer prime minister at the time, and shook hands with him, saying "You know I love you." Ha'aretz reported that a member of the US delegation met with a senior Israeli figure...Read More |
Times of Israel reports: US State Department spokesman Ned Price condemned far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir's attendance at a memorial event for Meir Kahane on Thursday, in what was the first public rebuke from the Biden administration of the Religious Zionism-Otzma Yehudit lawmaker aiming to become Israel's next public security minister. "Celebrating the legacy of a terrorist organization is abhorrent. There is no other word for it. It is abhorrent," Price said when asked during a press briefing about Ben Gvir's participation in the memorial event hours earlier. Price was referencing the Kach group that the American-born rabbi founded in 1971 and its offshoot Kahane Chai. If celebrating the legacy of Meir Kahane is abhorrent, then certainly the State Department would be even more appalled at....Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. Because by any metric, Abbas has celebrated and praised far worse people than Meir Kahane. For example, Abbas has repeatedly praised the rabidly antisemitic Nazi collaborator Mufti of Jerusalem. Apologists might argue that Abbas was not praising the Mufti's antisemitism and the pogroms he organized, but only his leadership of Palestinians. But Mahmoud Abbas has personally honored many, many people whose only accomplishments in life have been...Read More |
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