| Survey: Arabs in "east" Jerusalem are more satisfied than they were 12 years agonoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 21 Feb 05:45 AM The Palestinian Cente | | The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research asked Arab residents of Jerusalem the same questions they asked in 2010, and their answers show that in general, things are much better for them than they were before. For 21 out of 26 topics, the Arabs are more satisfied than they were in 2010, and in some cases significantly more. the biggest improvement was with the speed that fire and other emergency services arrive - satisfaction went up 28 percentage points from 42% to 70%, with a similar increase for satisfaction on ambulance service speed.
The poll also shows that things are much better for Jerusalemite Arabs in their standard of living, ease of travel through Ben Gurion Airport, the health system and even access to Al Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - things that you would not know from reading the news.
To be sure, there are plenty of things they are still unhappy with, and they are most dissatisfied with the difficulty of getting building permits.
There were other surprising results. When Jerusalem Arabs are asked to whom they turn to when they need help, most turn to family - but the Israeli authorities are not far behind.
And practically none of them trust Palestinian NGOs or the Waqf to help them.
Also, while most say they are fearful of intimidation by Jewish settler groups, there was a sharp increase of those saying they are more fearful of Palestinian groups intimidating them, from 20% to 29...Read More |
From Ian: This is how antisemitism thrives The key point here is that this is how antisemitism became so pervasive in Labour. It wasn't just because of people who are actively, deliberately antisemitic, though obviously it was because of them too. It was because too many left-wing journalists and thinkers, too many Labour members and online activists decided to look away. They made excuses, ignored things they didn't like, refused to believe what was right in front of them because it was uncomfortable. This is how antisemitism thrives. This dynamic is still happening. A couple of days ago, the Brixton branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) posted a pamphlet online calling for Zionists to be sacked, calling them a "brainwashed, racist minority", and urging the public to not speak to anyone who believes in Israel's right to exist. Nobody on the left made any comment on this, of course, because the people involved with PSC are on the left; Jeremy Corbyn is, naturally, a patron. In recent years, antisemitism has been demonstrated to be a real problem on the political left again and again and again. If you spend a day madly tweeting about Starmer barring Corbyn from candidacy without once mentioning antisemitism as the reason why, it becomes very apparent that you are not at all bothered by anti-Jewish racism; to you it is something to sidestep rather than confront. It's all very well going...Read More |
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The Institute of Palestine Studies published a paper in 2014, "The ICRC and the Detention of Palestinian Civilians in Israel's 1948 POW/Labor Camps," by Salman Abu Sitta and Terry Rempel. It has been publicized in recent days anew.
Its abstract says:
The internment of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Israeli-run prisoner of war camps is a relatively little known episode in the 1948 war. This article begins to piece together the story from the dual perspective of the former civilian internees and of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Aside from the day-to-day treatment of the internees, ICRC reports focused on the legal and humanitarian implications of civilian internment and on Israel's resort to forced labor to support its war effort. Most of the 5,000 or so Palestinian civilians held in four official camps were reduced to conditions described by one ICRC official as "slavery" and then expelled from the country at the end of the war. Notwithstanding their shortcoming, the ICRC records constitute an important contribution to the story of these prisoners and also expose the organization's ineffectiveness—absent a legal framework as well as enforcement mechanisms beyond moral persuasion, the ICRC could do little to intervene on behalf of the internees.Is this true? Did Israel use Arab civilians as slave labor in 1948?
The paper relies heavily on ICRC reports from the time. I do not have access...Read More |
From Ian: How the Palestinians Lost their Way From the time Israel was established in 1948, the Palestinians missed many opportunities to make peace. The late Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban put succinctly when he stated: "the Palestinians never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity," a fact that prevented a multitude of young Palestinians from enjoying the fruits of peace and becoming constructive players in nation-building who are able to take pride in their achievements. Starting with their refusal to accept the UN partition plan in 1947, the Palestinians have indisputably missed a number of opportunities, but it will suffice to name only a few. Following the Six Day War in 1967, the Palestinians turned down Israel's offer to return all the territories captured in war in exchange for peace (with the exception of the final status of Jerusalem). In 1977, the Palestinians rejected the invitation to join the Israeli-Egyptian peace negotiations which could have resulted in in an Israeli-Palestinian peace along with the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement signed in 1979. At Camp David in 2000, the Palestinians missed another historic opportunity and walked away the last minute when a comprehensive agreement was afoot. The most violent uprising—the Second Intifada—that began a few months later stunned the Israelis who concluded that Palestinians are simply not interested in peace...Read More |
The Jewish Journal and the Tikvah Fund presented a video debate yesterday between MK Simcha Rothman, who is spearheading the controversial judicial reform plan in Israel, and constitutional law expert Professor Yaniv Roznai, moderated by journalist Shmuel Rosner.
It is a very good overview of the issues that have been dividing Israeli society. A very worthwhile video to watch. The Jewish Journal says it will post a transcript for this debate, as of this writing I do not see it.
(h/t Yoel) * * * * * * 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 |
Last week, to much fanfare, the Maimonides synagogue was formally opened in Abu Dhabi as part of the Abrahamic Family House interfaith project spearheaded by the UAE royal family.
Many reports say that this is the first synagogue in Abu Dhabi, but in fact there was a modest synagogue that had been operating quietly for years in a rented villa for Jewish businesspeople in the Emirates.
Most of the Arabic language articles about the new synagogue have been respectful, but many - especially from outlets sympathetic to Iran - have been upset over this.
It appears that the articles that are upset over the complex are trying to manufacture and stoke the outrage rather than report on it.
Watanserb dug through social media to find critics of the synagogue. They found a couple of prominent critics but they also sought out Tweeters with only a few dozen followers to fill out the story...Read More |
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