| World Council of Churches is upset when Israel makes life EASIER for Palestiniansnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 15 Feb 05:45 AM In 2018, the World C | | In 2018, the World Council of Churches website wrote about how arduous the journey through checkpoints was for Palestinians going to Israel to work or find jobs: At 4.45, the Qalandiya checkpoint is already crowded, as thousands upon thousands of Palestinians try to make their way to Jerusalem each day. Qalandiya is the main checkpoint between the northern West Bank and Jerusalem, and ecumenical accompaniers (EAs) from the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (WCC-EAPPI) visit regularly in the early mornings. "If you live in East Jerusalem outside the wall, or in Ramallah for example, and you work in Jerusalem, you need to be at the checkpoint early if you want to get to work on time. Getting through the checkpoint can take anything between one and several hours," one of the EAs explains. It was definitely not an enjoyable experience to go through the checkpoint then, and the WCC wanted to make sure the whole world knew it. Now in 2023, the WCC revisited the checkpoints, and found things are quite different: Machsom Watch was founded in January 2001 by three Jewish Jerusalemite women who saw military checkpoints around Jerusalem and in the West...Read More |
From Ian: Disturbed Frontman Tells Artists to Ignore Pressure From BDS Supporters About Performing in Israel Disturbed frontman David Draiman said in a new podcast interview that he gives no attention to supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and they've in return come to realize that they'll never be able to convince him not to perform in the Jewish state. "F__k them. I don't care. They know I don't care, that's why they don't bother me," the Jewish musician said during his guest appearance last week on the Sarai Talk Show, a new podcast hosted by human rights activist and former Miss Iraq Sarah Idan. He added, "I have 2,000 relatives living in Israel. I have parents, my brother, uncles, aunts, cousins — you're really gonna try to say something to me about BDS? It makes no sense." Disturbed will embark on a world tour in April for its new album Divisive and will make a stop in Israel for a concert. It will be Draiman's second time performing in the country and the heavy metal musician, whose maternal grandmother has Yemenite Jewish roots, said he is "excited" to visit Israel again. Draiman is an avid supporter of Israel and also a member of the non-profit organization Creative Community for Peace, which promotes efforts to use the arts as a means to create peace and coexistence...Read More |
An op-ed in Al Quds, a UK-based news site for Palestinians, says, "The uprising this time must start from a clear political vision of how to coexist in peace and avoid internal strife, as the region is full of boiling factors, and there is enough misery and suffering because of them. With all that is happening, there is nothing left for the Arabs, except for a little face, which may be shed cheaply in front of the world's ridicule and the laughter of time. 'What is left of face can be preserved by a third intifada, led by youth in the spring of life, and boys whose buds have not yet blossomed, chanting the words of Ghassan Kanafani: "Beware of natural death, and do not die except between showers of bullets.' " To this Arab writer, seeing children attacking Israelis, and dying, is a point of pride. He wants Palestinian children to die, as long as it makes Palestinians feel honorable. And honor comes from attacking Jews. This is mainstream thinking among Palestinians and many other Arabs - this writer is from Egypt. One cannot emphasize enough how sick the culture of Palestinianism is. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at...Read More |
Today, the Yasir Arafat Museum opened up a new exhibition.
What part of Palestinian history is it about?
Silly. It is about how terrible Jews are.
Dignitaries, including the Palestinian prime minister Muhammad Shtayyeh, crowded the space to see maps and text on the walls showing how Jews are taking over what they consider Palestinian land.
Shtayyeh commented after his tour, "What we saw today in this exhibition is an exceptional effort in documenting settlement crimes and colonial crimes since the occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967. Settlement is a tool to destroy the two-state solution, and the colonialists have been defeated throughout history. This is the only case in the world in which the settler-colonial conflict with the indigenous people remains. " Shtayyeh thanked the management of the Yasser Arafat Foundation for this "exceptional, distinguished and great effort in preserving, presenting and documenting the crimes of Israeli colonialism and occupation." He called for "Palestine to remain in the heart of every Palestinian, in the heart of every Arab, and in the heart of every free and honorable person in this world." Shtayyeh also called on the United States and the European Union to put pressure on Israel to stop plans to build new settlement units in the West Bank. One demand I have not hear before: Shtayyeh called on the US and Europe to revoke citizenship...Read More |
From Ian: Biden and Israel, So far no good Throughout his senate career, Joe Biden ignored the easiest pro-Israel actions, nonbinding pro-Israel resolutions. Some of the resolutions called Bubba Clinton to press Syria to free the Jews locked in the county, supporting Israel's efforts to make peace. He refused to sign the talent/Nelson Letter Urging Pres. Bush #43 to press Palestinian Arab leadership to bar terrorist groups from participating in Palestinian Legislative Elections. The letter had 73 co-signers then- Sen. Biden did not sign this letter. As he neared becoming Vice President, Joe Biden got even worse. Two months before he was elected to be Barack Obama's number two, syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt reported: Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden was quoted Monday as telling senior Israeli officials behind closed doors that the Jewish state will have to reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran. (…) "Israel will have to reconcile itself with the nuclearization of Iran," Israell Army Radio quoted Biden as telling the unnamed officials. "It's doubtful if the economic sanctions will be effective, and I am against opening an additional military and diplomatic front. Ed Morrissey, Managing Editor of Hot Air, discussed Hewitt's report and news about Biden's comments in Ha'aretz, Jerusalem Post, and elsewhere. In 2021 Joe Biden was inaugurated and became the fourteenth American President since the rebirth...Read More |
Arafat got the ball rolling. In a 1997 online article on Azure, Yoram Hazony describes a 1996 festival staged by Arafat's Ministry of Culture, in honor of Ba'al: Arab youths dressed in robes bearing ancient Canaanite figures brandished torches as they danced about the town square, packed with officials of the PLO's administration and security services...On the stone stage in the middle of the square, a dramatic passion was acted out, with the Ba'al, god of the heavens and fertility in the pantheon of the ancient Canaanites, heroically struggling against Mut, god of the underworld...the narrator took the opportunity to pour praise on the loyal Palestinian-Canaanite nations, the Amorites, Girgashites, Jebusites and Perizzites, which had fought at his side in the battle against the Hebrew invaders from across the Jordan.
And Arafat kept the ball rolling. On March 30, 2000, Arafat declared during a 'Land Day' speech:Our forefathers, the Canaanites and Jebusites, built the cities and planted the land; they built the monumental city of Bir Salim [Jerusalem]… The previous year, his advisor and minister for Jerusalem affairs, Faisal Husseini, said in an interview with New York Times Magazine: I am a Palestinian. I am a descendant of the Jebusites, the ones who came before King David. This [Jerusalem] was one of the most important Jebusite...Read More |
The Palestinian Amad news site shows this photo of another "child" killed by Israeli forces as they engaged in a battle upon entering the Al-Faraa camp to arrest terrorists that the Palestinian Authority refuses to. Hmmm. 17-year old Mahmoud al-Aidi seems to be carrying something. A laptop bag, perhaps?
Not quite. In this case, the IDF says that al-Aidi approached them with an explosive device.
In related "child martyr" news, 14-year old Qusai Radwan Waked, who was killed Sunday, appears to have been linked to Islamic Jihad, and was referred to as a "mujahid" in the Jenin Qassam Telegram channel while wearing the PIJ headband and showing the "tawhid" hand gesture...Read More |
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