| Palestinian media complaining about the Jerusalem "Judaizing" Marathon this Fridaynoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 16 Mar 04:45 AM This Friday is the | | This Friday is the annual Jerusalem Marathon, so naturally the Palestinian are complaining about how the event is Judaizing the city.
The Safa news agency writes: There are many methods of the Israeli occupation in the Judaization of the occupied city of Jerusalem, and the promotion of artificial Talmudic narratives and terminology, through its attempts to change the Jerusalemite culture and identity, and replace it with a culture alien to Jerusalemites, in an attempt to prove its alleged sovereignty over the city. The occupation municipality, in cooperation with several Israeli institutions, plans to organize a Judaizing sports marathon in the Holy City next Friday, with the participation of thousands of Jews from all over the world. The occupation police decided to close many streets and roads, and some central parking lots in the occupied city, from 6:45 am until 1:30 pm on Friday, under the pretext of securing the course of the Judaizing marathon. The "Jerusalem Marathon" coincides with the influx of thousands of Palestinians and Jerusalemites to Jerusalem, to perform Friday prayers at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which impedes their...Read More |
From Ian: John Podhoretz: The Mess in Israel For much of the Israeli right, and especially for the intellectuals of the Israeli right, the Supreme Court issue has been a foremost concern for 25 years. And appropriately so. Thus it stood to reason that "judicial reform" legislation that reasserts Knesset primacy—which, in a counterpoint to the American system, features an "override" clause that would allow parliament to overturn a Supreme Court decision—would be taken up immediately. But they made the mistake most advocates and activists make when it comes to matters of long standing that have consumed them, which is, they found it hard to see what their efforts would look like from the outside to people who haven't been anywhere near as focused. For one thing, the courts in general are a particularly sensitive issue at this moment because the newly returned prime minister is under indictment. As it happens, I think the cases brought against Netanyahu are garbage, but that doesn't matter. If Knesset primacy is achieved, that would allow the new government to push through legislation postponing the cases against Netanyahu until he is out of office. And so, any efforts by the government to argue against the street protests against judicial reform seem compromised by a severe conflict of interest. Second, while the Knesset should (in my view) have this primacy—at least until Israel hunkers...Read More |
Polls can offer valuable insights on public sentiment. But when pollsters ask leading questions, there are no insights. The public sees only what they were directed to see: poll results that exactly mirror the bias of the poll's designer. Take for example, a recent poll on judicial reform conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute(IDI), the subject of a Jerusalem Post report: "Two-thirds of Israelis oppose Netanyahu government's judicial reform – poll." When the piece came out on February 21, I thought, "Oh, sure," snorted and went on to read something else. Because I knew it was a bunch of crap. There's no way that many Israelis oppose judicial reform. Israelis voted for the current government because they want judicial reform. We don't want the court to have the ability to strike down legislation that reflects the will of the people. It's undemocratic. It's overreach. Despite my skepticism, not two weeks later, I was prompted to revisit that Jerusalem Postreport. My token left-leaning friend had posted a photo of himself on social media getting ready to leave for a judicial reform protest. He was smiling and holding an Israeli flag. I glanced through the comments to get a feel for the pulse of this small group of virtual friends. What points were they arguing? How many were for and how many against? That interested me far more than my left-leaning...Read More |
Haaretz has a truly bizarre op-ed from a prominent rabbi, Daniel Landes, who should know better. Some sort of compromise might be offered at some point by the Israeli government coalition's minions to stop the unprecedented upheaval we in Israel are living through: mass streets protests, the hemorrhaging of high-tech investment money and pilots and other military reservists refusing on moral grounds to show up for reserve duty. While over half of the country yearns for an end to our ever-growing, overwhelming existential anxiety, compromise offers must be greeted with skepticism. Such admonition can seem surprising since we are used to compromise – pesharah – as a Jewish response to legal conflict. But pay attention, the Talmudic enterprise also contains a warning: compromise is often not the answer. ...But then the question remained as to whether the court itself should invite a judicially mediated pesharah. Many rabbis not only rejected that idea, but they explicitly forbade it. Evidently, the court was reserved for attempting to achieve absolute truth and was not the place for getting people to "just agree," which would imply a tampering with rectitude to solve the situation. Pesharah, compromise, was labeled as bitzu'a, signaling a truncated judgment, or even connoting a kind...Read More |
From Ian: PMW: Should the PA pay monthly salaries to teachers or terrorists? The teachers in the Palestinian Authority are striking because the PA is not paying their full wages and has reneged on promises it made to them in 2022. As a result, according to different reports, over a million Palestinian children have not had school since the strike started on 5th of February, 2023. Instead of paying the salaries of the teachers, the PA prioritizes to pay hundreds of millions of shekels to terrorists. As Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says, time after time: "Even if I'm left with one penny, I'll pay it to the families of the Martyrs, to the prisoners, and to the wounded." Referring to the strike, Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily summarized the PA approach – Blame Israel! According to Matar, the teachers' strike is due to the implementation of the Israeli Anti Pay-for-Slay law, the law that penalizes the PA for paying huge monthly cash rewards to terrorists:
"The wheels of educational life are put on strike now and then, under the headline of 'the right to strike' or abstaining from providing services to the citizens for particular periods of time until the realization of material (monetary) demands [parentheses in source]. This is even though everyone knows that all the public sector ([PA] government) employees [parentheses in source] are suffering as a result of...Read More |
IfNotNow tweeted on Sunday, "BREAKING: 13 Jewish IfNotNow activists were just attacked by security at the Israel Bonds Conference as they prayed Maariv to protest the visit by genocidal Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who called for a Palestinian town to be wiped out."
The video doesn't show them praying Ma'ariv. It shows them singing one of their favorite songs, "Lo Yisa Goy." They love the song because the translated lyrics mean, "Nation shall not take up sword against nation; they shall never again know war. "
The verse is from Isaiah 2:4, where the prophecy describes Messianic times.
But what does it say before this part?In the days to come, The Mount of the LORD's House shall stand firm above the mountains and tower above the hills; and all the nations shall gaze on it with joy..And the many peoples shall go and say, "Come, Let us go up to the Mount of the LORD, to the House of the God of Jacob; that He may instruct us in His ways, and that we may walk in His paths. For the Torah shall come forth from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem."Before there can be the peace described in the song, the world must recognize that the Lord of Israel is the true God and the Temple will have to be rebuilt - on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Zion.
I don't think that IfNotNow's Palestinian friends want them to sing that message. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism...Read More |
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Yesterday, Palestinian prime minister Mohamed Shtayyeh spoke to a crowd of supposed Harvard students in Ramallah. (I find it hard to believe that 300 Harvard students traveled to Ramallah with no other articles about them.)
In his speech, he claimed that "the occupation earns more than 50 billion dollars annually from our occupied lands."
I had never heard this number before, and I was curious as to where he got it from.
The closest I could find was a study released last December by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development that claims that "the contribution to the economy of Israel of settlements in Area C and occupied East Jerusalem is estimated at an average of $30 billion per year."
If that is Shtayyeh's source, then he's exaggerating by only 67%, which is pretty good for a Palestinian official.
But how did the UNCTAD study come up with its estimates? Pretty much by magic.
Since 2016, UNCTAD has prepared about one report a year on the cost of the "occupation" to the Palestinian economy, using different methods each time and trying to out-do previous reports using increasingly sketchy methods. This one is a doozy.
It relies on a method of estimating economic activity based on satellite images of areas at nighttime, Night Time Luminosity (NTL), a method that economists use to estimate...Read More |
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