| Arab pretense of wanting a Palestinian Arab state evaporated immediately after the UN partition vote 75 years agonoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 01 De | | During the UN debates before partiotion in November 1947, st the very same time that Arab leaders were at the UN insisting that they wanted an independent Palestinian Arab state, they were already planning on dividing the area up between themselves.
This article in the Palestine Post is from November 27, 1947: There was a similar article in the Palestine Post on November 30, 1947, the day of the partition, from a completely different source. ARAB STATES PREPARE TO FIGHT ABDULLAH By JON KIMCHE, Special to The Palestine Post LONDON , Saturday —Representatives of the Arab States here express serious disquiet following reports that King Abdullah's Arab Legion will occupy the Arab State sector of Palestine when the British withdraw. One British source normally very close to these representatives has stated , however, that what will happen, according to his information, is rather different . The Arab Legion , together with a token force from Iraq, will occupy, he said, the central sector of the Palestine Arab State. Syria and the Lebanon will occupy the coastal stretch of the Arab State north of Acre, and Egypt, with a token Saudi Arabian force, will occupy parts of the Negev and the desert frontier area. What will _happen after such a "partition of partitioned Palestine", he added, is anybody's guess, but one thing is certain : that the Arab States will not accept Trans-Jordan taking over by itself, and that TransJordan will oppose Syrian and Lebanese inroads. Literally hours...Read More |
From Ian: Bari Weiss [PodCast]: Bibi's Back: A Conversation With Israel's New Prime Minister Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—or Bibi, as he's known to just about everybody—is a polarizing figure. For some, he's the ultimate defender of the state of Israel, a man who's been willing to be unpopular to make the choices necessary to safeguard his vulnerable nation. For others, Bibi symbolizes everything that's wrong with 21st century Israel: the state's increasingly rightward turn and its never-ending conflict with the Palestinians. Bibi supporters chant "Bibi King of Israel" at rallies, while his enemies call him "crime minister." Bill Clinton said of Bibi: "you should never underestimate him." Barack Obama called him "smart, canny, tough" but also said that they "did not share worldviews," which is a bit of an understatement. Donald Trump called Netanyahu "the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with" but then later, infamously, "f— him." But there's one thing that everyone can agree on: Benjamin Netanyahu is the reigning master of Israeli politics. Despite being ousted just over a year ago, Bibi is back, and is now on the cusp of his third stint as prime minister of Israel. Why is Benjamin Netanyahu the man that Israelis just can't quit? And what does it mean for Israel that he's attempting to form a government with some of the most far-right parties in the...Read More |
Tadasa Tashume Ben Ma'ada died of his wounds three days after an Arab terrorist set off a bomb at the bus stop where Ben Ma'ada stood, awaiting his bus. Ben Ma'ada was murdered because he was a Jew, and he was buried as a Jew. But you might not have read about him in your newspaper. That's because Ben Ma'ada doesn't fit the CRT narrative of the Jew as white and privileged. Privileged he was, as a Jew who "came home" to Israel from Ethiopia 21 years ago, but white he was, of a certainty, not. wtf is this wording? https://t.co/k80cWKFSjx — Noam Blum (@neontaster) November 27, 2022 Not that it matters even one little bit. A Jew is a Jew is a Jew. It's not that we "don't see color." It's that we don't care. Ben Ma'ada died al Kiddush Hashem, in sanctification of God's name, because he was murdered precisely for belonging to the Jewish nation. That makes him holy. In Hebrew, in fact, martyrs are referred to as kedoshim, holy ones. Ben Ma'ada wasn't one of those "we are the real Jews" like Kyrie Irving, Ye West, or the Black Hebrew Israelites, but an actual real Jew who had zero interest in a trinity, or even Malcolm X. Black Hebrew Israelites out in force today, chanting "we are the real Jews" and "time to wake up," as they...Read More |
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Wednesday, that "the false advocates of human rights have been supporting the racist, terrorist Zionist entity for decades."
Really?
He apparently tweeted, "The false claimants of human rights support a racist, terrorist and occupying entity for more than 7 decades, which not only commits gross violations of human rights, but also commits genocide against the Palestinian people!"
Sadly, he didn't identify which human rights groups or advocates support Israel. We would all love to know.
I'd also like to know his definition of "genocide," given that Iran has killed more innocent civilians in the past two months than Israel has in years. * * * * * * 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 |
From Ian: Israel's UN ambassador: Mideast Jews were victims of the 'real Nakba' Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan inaugurated an exhibit on Tuesday highlighting the expulsion of Jews from Middle East countries, calling the story of these Jewish refugees the "real Nakba." The Palestinians have long used the Arabic term "Nakba," or catastrophe, to describe Israel's creation and the resulting displacement of some 700,000 of Palestinian Arabs during the 1948 war initiated by Arab nations to destroy the nascent Jewish state. Marking the 75th anniversary of the U.N.'s adoption of a resolution to create Israel, Erdan said that "those who really suffered from 'Nakba' following the decision were Jews—almost a million were expelled from Arab countries and Iran. Since the vote [on Nov. 29, 1947,] which the Arabs rejected, the United Nations has been telling a completely false story about the 'disaster' the Palestinians brought upon themselves," he added. While the vast majority of Jewish refugees from Arab countries were absorbed into Israel, the United Nations, by contrast, created the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to tend uniquely to Palestinian refugees. Today, the organization recognizes some 5 million Palestinians as "refugees," having effectively transformed the status into a hereditary trait applicable only to Palestinians. "A day after the...Read More |
Although it took way longer than I would have liked, NGO Monitor released a thorough, line by line debunking of the Human Rights Watch 2021 report that accused Israel of "apartheid."
No unbiased person can read the NGOM report and end up concluding that the HRW report has a shred of intellectual honesty.
The HRW report is not just filled with errors. That is an understatement. When they cherry pick parts of an article that support their thesis, and ignore the parts that debunk it, it is not an error - it is willful lying.
I could make 200 blog posts out of the lies listed here. Here is a very minor example that illustrates the whole, perverted attempt to paint Israel as an apartheid state: HRW cites disparity in playgrounds in one location as evidence of apartheid HRW consistently cherry-picks statistics, misrepresents data, and makes broad claims of Israeli evil based on minor incidents and minutiae. This example discusses charges of "playground apartheid." HRW claims: "Israeli authorities sharply discriminate in the provision of resources and services between Palestinians and Jewish Israelis in Jerusalem" (p. 115). The first specific evidence to back this charge is the fact that in 2016, there were two playgrounds in the Arab Jerusalem neighborhoods of Shuafat and Beit Hanina with a combined population of 60,000, compared to nearby Jewish neighborhoods with a playground for every 1,000 residents...Read More |
Palestinian routinely claim that the Kotel, or Western Wall, is really a Muslim shrine - the Buraq Wall, where Mohammed supposedly tethered his flying steed during his miraculous "night journey." It turns out that most Muslims never believed that until the 1929 riots and after Israel built the plaza in front of the Kotel in 1967.
The Shaw Commission report of 1930, about the riots that started at the Wall in 1929, describes the competing religious claims to the wall - and does not mention the legend of the Buraq at all, only that it is part of the Haram esh Sharif like all the other walls. One of the Holy Places in connection with which it has not infrequently been necessary to give rulings of the character indicated above is the Western or Wailing Wall; in Jerusalem. This Wall; forms part of the western exterior of the ancient Jewish Temple; being the last remaining vestige of that sacred place it is regarded with the greatest reverence by religious Jews, whose custom of praying there extended back to at least the Middle Ages. ....The Wall is also part of the Haram-esh-Sherif, which is an Islamic place of great sanctity, being reckoned next to the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina as an object of veneration to Moslems. If the Kotel was considered the holy "Buraq Wall" by Muslims at the time, certainly that would have been mentioned here. Although it must be mentioned that the testimony...Read More |
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