| Mahmoud Abbas mourns a female terrorist who tried to bomb a movie theaternoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 04 Nov 04:45 AM On Wednesday, terrorist Fati | | On Wednesday, terrorist Fatima Bernawi died in Egypt.
She was a celebrity for Palestinians because she was one of the earliest terrorists. In October 1967 Berawi placed a bomb at the Zion Cinema in (west) Jerusalem. The bomb, thankfully, didn't explode. Israeli police arrested her and she claims, ludicrously, that she was arrested because of her skin color - not because she placed a bomb in a movie theatre.
She stayed in prison for ten years before being released in a prisoner swap.
This is a Palestinian hero. Mahmoud Abbas mourned what he called "the great national fighter Fatima Al-Bernawi, the first captive of the contemporary Palestinian revolution." He had awarded her the Military Star of Honor Medal in 2005. She was one of the many Palestinians whose parents came from elsewhere. Her father was Nigerian (and was a terrorist during the 1936-9 revolt) and her mother was Jordanian. And she lived her last few years in Egypt. But her attempt to murder Jews in a movie theater makes her forever a Palestinian heroine. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern...Read More |
From Ian: A New Israeli Film Purports to Expose the Story of a Massacre That Never Happened Beginning this evening, the Manhattan Jewish Community Center is hosting its Other Israel film festival. Featured movies include Boycott, described as an "inspiring tale of everyday Americans" engaged in "legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech across 33 states in America"—namely, legislation that prevents states from doing business with entities that discriminate against and boycott Israel. Another film featured at the festival is about smugglers who help Palestinians evade Israeli soldiers, while a third film focuses on Mizra?im who were "denied their right to a better life in Israel" by the Israeli government. At the festival's opening night, there will be a screening of the documentary Tantura, directed by Alon Schwartz, which investigates allegations of a massacre perpetrated by the Haganah during the 1948 war. But like the "massacre" at Lydda, or the more famous one at Deir Yassin, it's unlikely this atrocity ever took place. The distinguished historian Benny Morris sets forth the evidence: In both [a recent article published in Haaretz] and the film, Schwarz maintains that Israeli forces, specifically the 33rd Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade, perpetrated a large massacre against the inhabitants of Tantura...Read More |
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There are lots of proofs that the Palestinians don't really want their own state, and that the entire point of Palestinian nationalism is just to destroy Jewish nationalism.
Examples include how they have rejected every peace plan that leaves Israel as a viable state, their insistence on the "right to return" where their own people would live in their enemy's land rather than their own, and the contradiction between telling the world they want a two state solution while none of their own maps show Israel. Not to mention how Palestinian Arabs showed no interest in their own state in the West Bank when Jordan controlled it: when the Jews don't control it, they no longer covet it.
Here's another proof.
This week was the Arab Summit in Algeria, and the Crown Prince of Jordan gave a speech. He said, "As for Jerusalem, it is the center of our unity and our common defense of the identity of the entire nation, and Jordan, under the Hashemite custodianship of Islamic and Christian holy sites in it, will continue, in cooperation with you and our brothers in the Palestinian National Authority, its historic role in protecting and caring for holy sites."
I have never seen the Palestinians say a single word against Jordan taking the role of custodian for the holy sites in what they consider their capital.
What kind of nation voluntarily cedes control of part of its capital city to an entirely different country? No self-respecting national...Read More |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Heaven, November 3 - The creator ex nihilo of all existence, with complete control and absolute knowledge of every last detail of that creation, expressed appreciation today for the humor of your feeble attempts at disproving His immanent reality, supernal sources disclosed. "Oh My Me, that's funny," the Almighty was heard to utter. "That human, and many others, believe that the limited, inadequate capacity of human language and cognition has any bearing on My nature." The LORD made the statement in response to a transcript of your contending that the paradoxical inquiry, "Can God make a stone so heavy that not even He can move it?" undermines the coherence of God as commonly understood as a tenable proposition. "If God can make a stone that He can't lift then there's something God can't do, which means He's not omnipotent," you declared, with laughable confidence. "If He can make the stone but then lift it, then He can't make a stone that He can't lift, which means there's something God can't do, and He's not omnipotent. Checkmate, believers." The Being that created the universe with the spoken word made heard what other divine beings heard as a chuckle. "I say God 'chuckled' because that's a word approximating the idea," cautioned the Archangel Gabriel. "Words, of course, as human...Read More |
From Ian: With overwhelming victory, Netanyahu set to form strong, stable, legitimate, right-wing gov't Apparently in Israel, the fifth time is the charm. After repeated attempts by the opposition, by defectors from his own right-wing bloc, by the prosecution and the Supreme Court to prevent embattled former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from ruling, the electorate finally ended Israel's protracted political deadlock by voting overwhelmingly in favor of Netanyahu and his natural—and loyal—right-wing allies. With 87.6 percent of the paper ballots counted, Netanyahu's bloc is likely to surge to as many as 65 seats in the 120-member Knesset. The number represents a stable parliamentary majority. By contrast, Israel's left-wing collapsed to barely 45 seats—a massive 20-seat gap between the right-wing and left-wing blocs. Parties comprising the outgoing coalition secured only 50 Knesset mandates this time around, including an Arab party affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. Even if the distribution of mandates shifts slightly as the final votes are counted, the results are clear: Netanyahu is returning to power for a third stretch as head of government, after a year in the opposition. The vote was a national referendum on the fitness of Netanyahu—Israel's longest-serving prime minister—as the man best suited for the top job. It was also a referendum...Read More |
By Daled Amos I can still remember when it was frowned upon for Jews to publicly criticize Israel. Clearly, we have long passed that point. To paraphrase Leon Wieseltier in his 2003 critique of Tony Judt, there are Jews who have crossed the line from the criticism of Israel's policy to the criticism of Israel's existence There are Jews today who separate themselves from the vast majority of Jews who, according to polls, consider Israel and Zionism as important to their Jewish identity. Instead, those Jews echo Paul O'Brien, the US director of Amnesty International, who lectured a Jewish group back in March that he rejected that poll indicating a Jewish cultural, historical bond with Israel: "I actually don't believe that to be true," O'Brien said regarding those figures. "I believe my gut tells me that what Jewish people in this country want is to know that there's a sanctuary that is a safe and sustainable place that the Jews, the Jewish people can call home." Rather than a Jewish state, American Jews want "a safe Jewish space," O'Brien continued. "I think they can be convinced over time that the key to sustainability is to adhere to what I see as core Jewish values, which are to be principled and fair and just in creating that space." [emphasis added; h/t Elder of Ziyon] Sanctuary?
Sustainability?
Was O'Brien talking...Read More |
This morning, three Israeli policemen were injured during a stabbing attack in Jerusalem as they confronted an Arab man acting suspiciously. The terrorist, Amer Hussam Badr (Halabiya), was shot and killed.
Badr was a civil engineering student at Birzeit University. Students there held a large demonstration for his "martyrdom."
The university itself issued a statement - a statement of support for terrorism. The family of Birzeit University, management, staff and students, especially the College of Engineering and Technology, mourns with great pride its martyr Amer Hussam Badr, a student in the Department of Civil Engineering, who was martyred today from his injury by the occupation bullets in the occupied city of Jerusalem. (h/t Adam Albiya) They are proud that one of their students went to Jerusalem with a knife with the intention of killing Jews. Birzeit University has large Hamas and Fatah factions who...Read More |
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